Sengaku-ji
Sengaku-ji (泉岳寺) is a Sōtō Zen Buddhist temple located in the Takanawa neighborhood of Minato-ku, near Sengakuji Station and Shinagawa Station, Tokyo, Japan. Each year on December 14, Sengakuji Temple holds a festival commemorating the 47-Ronin event (the most famous example of the samurai code of honor courage, and loyalty—bushido—as the country's "national legend").
The graves of Asano Takumi no Kami Naganori and the Forty-seven Ronin are there. This is where these rōnin of the true story that became the Kabuki epic Chūshingura committed ritual suicide after avenging their master's death. Their graves are a popular site of pilgrimage to this day
External links
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- (Japanese) Sengaku-ji - homepage
- National Diet Library: photograph of Sengaku-ji (1900)
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