Igagoe vendetta
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The Igagoe vendetta was a vengeance incident in Japan in 1634, where the murder of a retainer was avenged by his older brother. The event happened in the town of Iga-Ueno near Iga Pass. The vendetta i
Two swordsmen with blunt swords are locked in combat, and a third has taken a tumble. This is an episode from a popular story based on the Igagoe revenge, first performed in 1777. Print by Konishi Hirosada, c. 1850.
Igagoe vendetta monument
Kuniyasu, Igagoe Vendetta, c.1815-1820
![Katsukawa Shuntei [ja], Igagoe Dochusugoroku, 1811](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/Igagoe_d%C5%8Dch%C5%AB_sugoroku_LCCN2008660469.jpg/500px-Igagoe_d%C5%8Dch%C5%AB_sugoroku_LCCN2008660469.jpg)
Katsukawa Shuntei [ja], Igagoe Dochusugoroku, 1811
Araki Mataemon
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Araki Mataemon was a Japanese samurai active in the early Edo period. Araki Mataemon was the founder of the koryū martial art Yagyū Shingan-ryū, known sometimes as Yagyū Shingan-ryū Taijutsu.
Igagoe vendetta
…eventually located him in the neighborhood of Iga-Ueno. By now, Watanabe Kazuma had been joined in his revenge by his sister's husband, famous swordsman Araki Mataemon. "On the seventh day of the eleventh month of 1634", Watanabe Kazuma, Araki Mataemon, and two other men waited for Kawai Matagoro at the Kagiya crossroads…
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