On the tip of my tongue ...

[astaroth]

There is a famous story of 300 (maybe the number is wrong) samurai who avenged their lord who was betrayed and committed seppuku. It's a classical example of bushidou ... but I don't remember the name of it. Could you help me out?

Thanks

[AJBryant]

"Chûshingura" (trans. "The Treasury of Loyal Retainers").

AKA "The 47 Rônin."

[astaroth]

Thanks!
For some reasons I was remembering a much bigger number ...

[furrykef]

Maybe your bigger number had to do with a certain group of Spartans who fought a battle at Thermopylae.

[astaroth]

Maybe maybe

[AJBryant]

Go tell the samurai, thou that passest by, that here, obedient to their laws, we lie.

[Infidel]

lol.

Shame on you. Well, I suppose Sparta could have been the decedents of Samurai that wandered a bit too far west. Yea, that's it.

On the topic of the thread title... What is the Japanese equivalent to the English phrase, "On the tip of my tongue"? Thanks.

[becki_kanou]

You say.. ここまで来ている and gesture at your mouth.

[astaroth]

For real?

[Infidel]

Thank you Becki,

I keep having trouble with verbs where -teiru doesn't indicate an ongoing state.