Sengaku-ji Temple 泉岳寺
The 47 rōnin are buried here: incense 500 yen, museum 500 yen, conflicting hours.
Founded in 1612 by the shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu as a small chapel near present-day Kasumigaseki, the temple burned in the Kan'ei fire of 1641; the third shōgun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, ordered five daimyō clans to rebuild it here, in Takanawa, on a larger scale. It became the family temple of the Asano clan, and when Asano Naganori was forced to commit seppuku in 1701 for drawing his sword in Edo Castle, his grave was placed here. In 1702 the forty-seven rōnin led by Ōishi Kuranosuke avenged his death by killing Kira Yoshinaka, washed the severed head at the temple well and presented it before their lord's grave before giving themselves up to the authorities; sentenced to seppuku, they were buried beside him. The graves of Asano Naganori and the 47 rōnin have been a national Historic Site since 1922.
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