In <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo" id="mwPw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Edo">Edo</a> (now Tokyo), all but one of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forty-seven_Ronin" id="mwQA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Forty-seven Ronin">Forty-seven Ronin</a> commit <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seppuku" id="mwQQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Seppuku">seppuku</a> (ritual suicide) as recompense for avenging their master's death.<sup about="#mwt43" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./February_4#cite_note-6" id="mwQg" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwQw">[6]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt40" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFCoffey1971">Coffey, Thomas M. (1971). <i id="mwBfw">Imperial Tragedy: Japan in World War II, the First Days and the Last</i>. New York: World Publishing Co. pp.<span id="mwBf0" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>214–215. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./OCLC_(identifier)" id="mwBf4" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="OCLC (identifier)">OCLC</a><span id="mwBf8" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713931898" id="mwBgA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">713931898</a>.</cite><span about="#mwt40" class="Z3988" id="mwBgE" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Imperial+Tragedy%3A+Japan+in+World+War+II%2C+the+First+Days+and+the+Last&amp;rft.place=New+York&amp;rft.pages=214-215&amp;rft.pub=World+Publishing+Co.&amp;rft.date=1971&amp;rft_id=info%3Aoclcnum%2F713931898&amp;rft.aulast=Coffey&amp;rft.aufirst=Thomas+M.&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFebruary+4"></span></span>