 For this act, he was sentenced to commit "seppuku", but Kira did not receive any punishment.The shogunate confiscated Asano's lands (the Akō Domain) and dismissed the samurai who had served him, making them rōnin.Nearly two years later, Ōishi Kuranosuke Yoshio, who had been a high-ranking samurai in the service of Asano, led a group of forty-six/forty-seven of the "rōnin" (some discount the membership of one for various reasons).