Takanawa
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Takanawa is a neighborhood in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.
Shinagawa Station Takanawa Entrance
Full Moon at Takanawa, by Hiroshige
Takamatsu Junior High School (高松中学校)
Takanawadai Elementary School (高輪台小学校)
Forty-seven rōnin
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The revenge of the forty-seven rōnin, also known as the Akō incident or Akō vendetta, was a historical event in Japan in which a band of rōnin avenged the death of their former master on 31 January 17
Takanawa
…Monument to the opening of Shinagawa Station Sengaku-ji—the graves of the Forty-seven rōnin and their lord as a Minato-ku designated cultural asset. A designated national asset. Tōzen-ji—the site of the first British legation…
Revenge of the Loyal Samurai of Akō by Yasuda Raishū (ja) (Homma Museum of Art), with iconography borrowed from the Adoration of the Shepherds
Memorial stone marking the site of the Matsu no Ōrōka (Great Corridor of Pines) in Edo Castle, where Asano attacked Kira
Ukiyo-e showing Ōishi signaling an attack by beating a drum. By Tsukioka Yoshitoshi.
The rōnin attack the principal gate of Kira's mansion