Who Is Hazama Jujiro Mitsuoki (Hazama Mitsuoki)?
Young ronin who struck Kira first
Hazama Jujiro was one of the 47 Ronin, the young man said to have been the first to strike Lord Kira Kozuke-no-Suke with his spear and to have taken his head.
He joined the raid together with his father, Hazama Kihei. On the night of the raid, the ronin found Kira missing from his bedroom, searched the whole mansion, and discovered an old man hiding in a charcoal shed. Records say Jujiro thrust at him with his spear and Takebayashi Tadashichi then cut him down.
As the ronin withdrew, Kira's head was offered before their lord's grave at Sengakuji Temple. Jujiro also committed seppuku after the raid.
Episodes featuring this character3
NEWEpisode 10
Their Enemy Was Shivering in the DarkThe Raid on Kira's Mansion
Dawn is closing in, and Lord Kira Kozuke-no-Suke Yoshinaka is still nowhere to be found. In a dark charcoal shed behind the kitchen, the ronin find only a frail old man in a white nightrobe, trembling. When the hunt that lasted a year and nine months finally ends, nobody cheers. There are only quiet tears.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 11
They Had the Head. They Didn't Run.The March to Sengaku-ji
The raid is over. With the head of their enemy, Lord Kira, raised on a spear, the ronin march through the snowy streets of Edo to the grave of their late lord. Along the way, one foot soldier, a dried persimmon from a comrade tucked in his robe, quietly slips out of the line. At the grave, Oishi weeps for the first time.
19 pages
NEWEpisode 12
47 Ronin. Only 46 Graves.The Seppuku of the 47 Ronin and Sengaku-ji
After the raid, the forty-six ronin are placed in the custody of four daimyo houses. At the Hosokawa mansion, Horiuchi Den'emon listens to their stories and is eventually entrusted with a letter from Oishi Kuranosuke to his son Chikara. On a spring day the verdict arrives: seppuku. At the graves of Sengaku-ji, the aged storyteller Terasaka Kichiemon finishes his tale, and the story passes on to the stage as the curtain rises on Kanadehon Chushingura.
19 pages