Sengaku-ji

The sanctuary wound up popular through the occurrence of the forty-seven Ronin in the eighteenth century. This is a St.Zen Buddhist sanctuary situated in the Takanawa neighborhood of Minato-ku, close Sengakuji Station, and Shinagawa Station, Tokyo, Japan.

The tomb of Lord Asano Takumi-no-Kami Naganori is arranged here, who was constrained to submit custom suicide after he broke tradition and pulled in a sword the Edo Castle. Retainers the forty-seven Ronin drove by Oishi Kuranosuke struck back for his passing, washed his enemy's head in a water well and showed it on the conciliatory stone before his tomb.

A brief timeframe later they were asked for by the Shogun to submit custom suicide and were similarly secured here by their ruler.Their story ended up well known through the Kabuki epic Chshingura and their graves turned into a mainstream site of the journey.