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Monument at the location of the Corridor of the Pines at the Imperial Palace (formerly Edo Castle) in Tokyo

Asano Naganori (浅野長矩 September 28, 1667 – April 21, 1701) was the daimyo of the Ako han in Japan (1675 - 1701). His title was Takumi no Kami (内匠頭). He is known as the person who triggered a series of incidents retold in a story known as Chushingura, one of the favourite themes of kabuki, joruri and Japanese books and films. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Matsu no O Roka Edo Castle Kokyo Chiyoda, Tokyo Kanto region Honshu Japan Forty-seven Ronin I took this photograph and contribute this image file to the public domain. ... Matsu no O Roka Edo Castle Kokyo Chiyoda, Tokyo Kanto region Honshu Japan Forty-seven Ronin I took this photograph and contribute this image file to the public domain. ... Panorama of the Imperial Palace in Tokyo Map of the Imperial Palace and surrounding Gardens Nijubashi Bridge at the Imperial Palace. ... is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... // Events January 20 - Poland cedes Kyiv, Smolensk, and eastern Ukraine to Russia in the Treaty of Andrusovo that put a final end to the Deluge, and Poland lost its status as a Central European power. ... is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events January 18 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. ... Daimyo Matsudaira Katamori visits the residence of a retainer. ... Akō (赤穂市; -shi) is a city located in Hyogo, Japan. ... The Han ) were the fiefs of feudal clans of Japan that were created by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and existed until their abolition in 1871, three years after the Meiji Restoration. ... Year 1675 (MDCLXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ... Incense burns at the burial graves of the 47 Ronin at Sengakuji. ... The oldest Kabuki theatre in Japan: the Minamiza in Kyoto The Kabukiza in Ginza is one of Tokyos leading kabuki theaters. ... Bunraku (Japanese: 文楽), also known as Ningyō jōruri (人形浄瑠璃), is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theater, founded in Osaka in 1684. ...

He was born in Edo as the eldest son of Asano Nagatomo. His family was a branch of the Asano family whose main lineage was in Hiroshima. His grandfather Naganao was appointed to the position of daimyo of Ako with 50 thousand koku. After Naganao died in 1671, Nagatomo succeeded to the position but died after three years in 1675. Naganori succeeded to his father at the age of nine. Edo (Japanese: , literally: bay-door, estuary, pronounced //), once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo. ... Asano Nagatomo ) (1643-February 20, 1675) was a Japanese daimyo of the Edo period, who ruled the Akō Domain. ... The Asano family ) was a noble samurai family in feudal Japan which controlled the han (fief) of Hiroshima centered around Hiroshima Castle for much of the Edo period. ... For other uses, see Hiroshima (disambiguation). ... A koku ) is a unit of volume in Japan, equal to ten cubic shaku. ... Year 1675 (MDCLXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the 10-day slower Julian calendar). ...

In 1680 he was appointed to the office of Takumi no Kami, the head of carpentry at the imperial court, but this office was nominal, as were other offices granted to samurai at that time, and only had an honorific meaning. As a daimyo with a small fief, he was appointed several times to temporary minor offices of the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1683 he was first appointed to be one of two officials to host the emissaries from the imperial court to the Shogunate. It was the first time he met Kira Yoshinaka, the highest-ranking koke, the head of ceremonial matters at the Shogunate, who instructed officials in the manner of hosting noble guests from Kyoto. The Tokugawa shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府) (also known as the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship of Japan established in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family until 1868. ... This monument marks the former location of the Great Corridor of Pines at Edo Castle, where Asano Naganori attempted to kill Kira Yoshinaka. ... A kōke (高家) was a noble ranking below a daimyo in Japan during the Edo period. ...

In 1694 he suffered from a serious illness. He had no children, thus no heir at that time. When a daimyo died without a determined heir, his house would be abolished by the Shogunate, and his lands confiscated; his retainers would become ronin. To prevent this, he adopted his younger brother Asano Nagahiro, titled Daigaku, and Nagahiro was accepted as his heir by the Shogunate. Graves of the forty-seven Ronin at Sengaku-ji Ronin robbing a merchants house in Japan around 1860 (1) For other uses, see Ronin (disambiguation). ...

In 1701 he was appointed for the second time to the same office. It is said that he was then on bad terms with Kira Yoshinaka and tension between them increased. This monument marks the former location of the Great Corridor of Pines at Edo Castle, where Asano Naganori attempted to kill Kira Yoshinaka. ...

Grave of Asano Naganori at Sengaku-ji

On the day of his death, he drew his sword and attempted to kill Kira in the Corridor of the Pines at Edo Castle in what is now Tokyo. He wounded, but failed to kill, Kira. On the same day, the fifth Tokugawa shogun Tsunayoshi sentenced him to commit seppuku, which he did after writing the death poem 「風さそふ 花よりもなほ 我はまた 春の名残を いかにとやせん」 "kaze sasou / hana yori mo nao / ware wa mata / haru no nagori o / ika ni toyasen." Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 743 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,517 × 1,224 pixels, file size: 645 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Grave of Asano Naganori at Sengaku-ji, Takanawa, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 743 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,517 × 1,224 pixels, file size: 645 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Grave of Asano Naganori at Sengaku-ji, Takanawa, Minato, Tokyo, Japan. ... Edo Castle (江戸城 -jō) was built in 1457 by ÅŒta Dōkan in what is now the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo, but was then known as Edo, Toshima District, Musashi Province. ... For other uses, see Tokyo (disambiguation). ... The Tokugawa shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府) (also known as the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship of Japan established in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family until 1868. ... Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (February 23, 1646–February 19, 1709) was the fifth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. ... Seppuku (Japanese: 切腹, belly-cutting) is a form of Japanese ritual suicide by disembowelment. ... General Akashi Gidayu preparing to commit seppuku after losing a battle for his master in 1582. ...

He was buried in the graveyard of Sengaku-ji. His retainers became ronin when the Shogunate confiscated his fief. Under the leadership of Oishi Kuranosuke they avenged the death of their lord by killing Kira at his mansion in Edo on December 15, 1702. These former retainers became famous as the Forty-seven Ronin, and the vendetta ranks as one of the three most famous in Japan. Categories: Stub ... Graves of the forty-seven Ronin at Sengaku-ji Ronin robbing a merchants house in Japan around 1860 (1) For other uses, see Ronin (disambiguation). ... Statue of Ōishi Yoshio at Sengakuji in Tokyo Ōishi Yoshio (大石良雄 1659 - March 20, 1703) was the karō of the Akō han in Harima Province (now Hyogo Prefecture), Japan (1679 - 1701). ... Edo (Japanese: , literally: bay-door, estuary, pronounced //), once also spelled Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of the Japanese capital Tokyo. ... is the 349th day of the year (350th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Events March 8 - William III died; Princess Anne Stuart becomes Queen Anne of England, Scotland and Ireland. ... Incense burns at the burial graves of the 47 Ronin at Sengaku-ji. ...

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Further Reading

• Nakajima Shizuo 中島静雄 (1985). Asano Takumi no Kami ninjō no himitsu: seishinkai no mita Akō Jiken 浅野内匠頭刃傷の秘密 : 精神科医の見た赤穂事件. Sapporo: Medikaru Paburishiti.