Translingual Rewriting Of The Akō Incident And The Reconstruction Of Japanese Cultural Theory

Japan Akō incident is in the Genroku years of the forty-seven righteous due to the Lord suffered injustice forced to caesarean section and the emergence of revenge,after two years of planning and endure after the final success of the Lord king revenge story.Akō happened after I was wide recognition and praise,the underlying Japan after the Meiji restoration is further from the level of loyal patriotic propaganda by the government,it is since the Meiji restoration period,Akō events as can reflect the Japanese history and culture and national characteristics of the story was by foreigners or overseas study Japanese hands to the world in multiple languages,it became one of the most famous Japanese historical events in the world.Foreign researchers also regard the Akō Incident as an important material for the study of Japanese culture and spirit,and focus on the Japanese Bushido spirit contained in the Edo period from the aspects of "loyalty","filial piety","justice" and so on,which has become one of the important materials for the world to understand Japan.The Akō Incident has been spreading in The English-speaking world for a long time,and some of the most representative works include Tales of Old Japan,published in 1971 by Mitford,who adapted The Akō Incident into a story based on real history.The title of The AkōEvent in the book is "The Forty-Seven Ronins." In addition to the forty-seven righteous people in the story,they also imagine and create from the perspective of their master,Asano Nagao,which makes the Akō event in the story have justice."The Chrysanthemum and the Sword" written by Benedict at the request of the U.S.government at the end of World War II,also uses the story of 47 tales of the People to illustrate the importance of friendship to the Japanese.The Japanese also tried to introduce the Akō incident in English writing,the most representative of which is Bushido:The Soul of Japan by Inazuo.The section of Suicide and Revenge System in Bushido also cited the Akō incident as the material for their own discussion.This paper mainly chooses these three works as the entry point to study the interlingual paraphrase of Akō Incident in Japan and the authors of these three works combined with Akō incident itself to reconstruct Japanese cultural theory in their works in different times.