A. B. Mitford (Lord Redesdale), Tales of Old Japan (1871; reprinted Charles E. Tuttle, 1982) - a classic even without story of the Ronin
John Allyn, The Forty-Seven Ronin Story (Charles E. Tuttle, 1981)
Hiroaki Sato, Legends of the Samurai (Overlook Press, 1995) - contains a number of original documents, including a fascinating account by an eyewitness to the arrest, trial and execution of Asano
William Theodore De Bary, Donald Keene, Ryusaku Tsunoda, "Sources of Japanese Tradition" (Columbia University, 1960), 2d Ed., Chapter 31
Frederick V. Dickens, Chushingura, or The Loyal League (1876; reprinted Glasgow, 1930)
Donald Keene, Chushingura: A Puppet Play (Columbia University, 1971)
Basil Steward, Subjects Portrayed in Japanese Colour-Prints (1922, reprinted Dover, 1979) - has seven chapters on the history of the depiction of the Ronin in prints
B. W. Robinson, Kuniyoshi: The Warrior Prints (Cornell University, 1982) - lists all the Kuniyoshi Ronin prints
David R. Weinberg, Alfred H. Marks, Kuniyoshi: The Faithful Samurai (Hotei, Leiden, 2000) - large illustrations of all of Kuniyoshi's most famous Ronin series, along with translations of the lengthy biographical notes on each of the Ronin printed on each print
