Asano Daigaku Nagahiro, Takuminokami's younger brother and heir, was allowed by the Tokugawa Shogunate to re-establish his name, though his territory was reduced to a tenth of the original.

They would have been forever remembered as cowards and drunkards — bringing eternal shame to the name of the Asano clan.

* April 21 – In Japan, the young daimyo Asano Naganori is ordered to commit seppuku ( ritual suicide ).

He conceived his convoluted plan to ensure they would succeed at killing Kira, which is not a proper concern in a samurai: the important thing was not the death of Kira, but for the former samurai of Asano to show outstanding courage and determination in an all-out attack against the Kira house, thus winning everlasting honor for their dead master.

Little is ever mentioned of Kira's 40 year service in a responsible government position, only that he was a greedy official who gravely insulted Asano.

The Hollywood film 47 Ronin is currently under production by Universal Pictures and will star Keanu Reeves as an outcast who joins the samurai in their quest to avenge their slain master along with some of the biggest Japanese actors such as Hiroyuki Sanada, Tadanobu Asano, Kô Shibasaki, Rinko Kikuchi, and Jin Akanishi.

Maborosi, known in Japan as Maboroshi no Hikari ( 幻の光, literally " phantasmic light ", but best translated as ' a trick of the light ') is a 1995 Japanese film by director Hirokazu Koreeda starring Makiko Esumi, Tadanobu Asano and Takashi Naitō.

Distance is a 2001 film by Japanese director Koreeda Hirokazu, starring Arata, Tadanobu Asano, Iseya Yusuke, Terajima Susumu, and Natsukawa Yui.

is a 2003 Japanese film written and directed by Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, starring Tadanobu Asano and Joe Odagiri.

Asano is called " the cement king of the Meiji period.

Asano Station is named after him.

: Yukina Asano is Seiji's first ( sort of ) girlfriend and childhood sweetheart.

The definition of reclaimed water, as defined by Levine and Asano, is " The end product of wastewater reclamation that meets water quality requirements for biodegradable materials, suspended matter and pathogens.

is a popular band from Japan, consisting of Mickie Yoshino, Yukihide Takekawa, Takami Asano, Steve Fox, and Tommy Snyder ( all but Snyder were born in Japan, and Fox's mother is Japanese ).

The team's captain is Ryota Asano.

For Pure, the opening theme is " Before the Moment " by Eri Kitamura while by Nakata, Terakado, and Asano is the ending song.

The opening theme for Xtreme Xecutor is " Stargazer " by Yuka Masuda while the ending theme is by Masumi Asano and Aya Endo, the voices of Hakufu Sonsaku and Bachou Mouki, respectively.

Michiru is voiced by Masumi Asano.

Heaven and Earth ( 天と地と, Ten to chi to ) is a 1990 film directed by Haruki Kadokawa starring Enoki Takaaki, Tsugawa Masahiko, Asano Atsuko, Zaizen Naomi and Nomura Hironobu.

is a 1999 Japanese film directed by Katsuhito Ishii and starring Tadanobu Asano.

Kuroo Sameheda ( Tadanobu Asano ), a yakuza soldier, is on the run for his life after stealing from his Boss Sawada ( Susumu Terashima ).

Hoshina, however, saw this attack as a potential challenge to Tokugawa authority itself, and Yamaga was subsequently exiled to stay with the Asano daimyo in the Akō domain ( han ), where his life intersects with the tale of the forty-seven ronin, which is later retold in the classic of Japanese literature Chūshingura.

The ending theme for the OVA is " Kokoro no Piano " (" Heart's Piano ") by Masumi Asano.

However, although apprenticed to Soko in the military arts, Asano showed a marked lack of samurai spirit as well as a lack of sword skill in his attack on Kira.

He himself has directed a feature film, Away with Words ( aka Kujaku, aka San tiao ren ) set in Hong Kong and Okinawa, starring Tadanobu Asano and Mavis Hee, as well as a segment “ Porte de Choisy ” in the feature film Paris, je t ’ aime.

He carried out his role well – and secretly coordinated the movements of the remaining loyal Asano samurai.

The Date clan of Sendai, the Shimazu clan of Satsuma, the Mōri clan of Choshu, the Maeda clan of Kaga ( and its branches at Daishōji and Toyama ), the Yamanouchi clan of Tosa, the Kuroda clan of Fukuoka, the Asano clan of Hiroshima ( and its branch at Hiroshima-shinden ), the Nabeshima of Saga, the Ikeda of Tottori ( as well as its branches of Okayama, Shikano, Wakazakura, Hirafuku, as well as hatamoto-level Ikeda ), and the Hachisuka of Tokushima were all tozama families that had the use of the Matsudaira surname.

Asano should have known that attacking a Shogunal official in the Shogun's castle was a grave offence that likely would result in his death and the destruction of his house and confiscation of his domain thereby destroying the livelihood of his loyal retainers.

* Asano Yoshinaga ( 1576-1613 ), also known as Yoshinaga ; son of Nagamasa.

The story tells of a group of samurai who were left leaderless ( becoming ronin ) after their daimyo ( feudal lord ) Asano Naganori was forced to commit seppuku ( ritual suicide ) for assaulting a court official named Kira Yoshinaka, whose title was Kōzuke no suke.

* January 30 ( December 14 of previous year in the Chinese calendar ) – In Japan, the revenge of the Forty-seven Ronin occurs, assassinating Daimyo Kira Yoshinaka, the enemy of their former lord Asano Naganori, at his own mansion as a vengeance.

Among the former daimyo of Akō was Asano Naganori, the master of the Forty-seven Rōnin.

The graves of Asano Takumi no Kami Naganori and the Forty-seven Ronin are there.

On March 14, 1701, Asano Takumi no Kami Naganori attacked and injured Kira Kozuke no Suke Yoshihisa after an insult there, which later led to the bloody incident of the Forty-seven Ronin.

* Asano Naganori ( 1667-1701 ), lord of the Forty-Seven Ronin.

* Asano was a student of Confucian scholar Yamaga Soko, whose principal teaching was that in peacetime the samurai " should set a high example of devotion to duty ".

Yoshinao's principal wife was Princess Haru, the daughter of Asano Yoshinaga of Kii ( whose family was later transferred to Hiroshima ), and his concubines included Osai and Ojō no Kata.

Also included were heirs to lords whose domains were confiscated ( for example, Asano Daigaku, the brother of Asano Naganori ), local power figures in remote parts of the country who never became daimyo ; and the families of Kamakura Period and Muromachi Period Shugo ( Governors ): some of these include the Akamatsu, Besshō ( branch of the Akamatsu ), Hōjō, Hatakeyama, Kanamori, Imagawa, Mogami, Nagai, Oda, Ōtomo, Takeda, Toki, Takenaka ( branch of the Toki ), Takigawa, Tsutsui, and Yamana families.

His family was a branch of the Asano family whose main lineage was in Hiroshima.

Asano Yoshinaga arrived in 1600 to serve as feudal lord, under Tokugawa Ieyasu.

In 1701, his lord Asano Naganori wounded Kira Kōzuke no Suke, and was sentenced to commit seppuku, which resulted in the elimination of Asano control of the domain.

Asano Nagaakira became lord of the castle.

* Asano Nagaakira ( 1586-1632 ), brother of Yukinaga, first Asano lord of Hiroshima.