Image Description from historic lecture booklet: "The 47 Ronins committed suicide to escape death by the executioner and in death have become popular heroes.

The temple burial place where the little squared headstones of the forty-seven stand in a touching oblong is the shrine in all Japan most thronged every day in the year. Before every stone incense is burned by the visitors. Not one is neglected. For the grave of the youngest, a lad of seventeen, the incense receptacle is many times the largest. I laid my bundle of sticks upon the grave of the oldest, a man of seventy-two, who in this competition of the dead ordinarily had the fewest. (Japan at First Hand.)"

Original Collection: Visual Instruction Department Lantern Slides

Item Number: P217:set 060 018

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