Sakuradamon Incident (1860)
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The Sakuradamon Incident was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito and Satsuma Domains, outside the Sakurada Gate of
Sakuradamon incident. Detail from print
In 1860, Ii Naosuke was the most influential advisor to the shogunate.
The Sakuradamon gate in 2007.
Arimura Jisaemon, on the point of committing the assassination. Woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi.
Ii Naosuke
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Ii Naosuke was a daimyō of Hikone and also Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his assassination in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860. He is
Sakuradamon Incident (1860)
…The Sakuradamon Incident (桜田門外の変, Sakuradamon-gai no Hen; or 桜田門の変 Sakuradamon no Hen) was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister (Tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860 by rōnin samurai of the Mito and Satsuma Domains, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo…
Portrait of Ii Naosuke, painted by his third son Ii Naoyasu. Echigo Province Yoita Domain 10th lord) Gotokuji (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo). Setagaya-ku designated tangible cultural property (historical material)
Edo Castle's Sakurada Gate (Sakurada-mon) – photographed by Felice Beato, 1863–1870
Edo Castle's Sakurada Gate (Sakurada-mon) – the location chosen by Ii Naosuke's assassins for their attack in Ansei 7 (March 1860)