Kunisada ChūjiKunisada Chūji was a popular figure in the Edo period. He was a bakuto.Romanticized counterpart to Robin HoodHis story is mainly responsible for the romanticised "chivalrous bandit" or "Robin Hood" image in Japan. An example was when a village had a famine, he helped the village out.ExecutionHe was publicly executed in 1850 for various crimes after a large man-hunt.LegacyChūji is depicted on a 1999 Japanese stamp.