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Tokyo Sengaku-ji Royalty Free Stock Photo

Statue of Oishi Yoshio at Sengaku-ji Temple in Tokyo, Japan. He is known as the leader of the 47 Royalty Free Stock Photo

Tomb of Asano Naganori 1667-1701 at Sengaku-ji Temple in Tokyo, Japan. He is known as the person who Royalty Free Stock Photo

Tokyo, Sengaku-ji Temple in Tokyo. He is known as the leader of the 47 Ronin in their 1702 vendetta and thus the hero of the Chushingura. Sengaku-ji is a Buddhist temple belonging to the Soto chool of Japanese Zen located in the Takanawa neighborhood of Minato-ku, near Sengakuji Station and Shinagawa Station, Tokyo, Japan. It was one of the three major Soto temples in Edo during the Tokugawa shogunate, and became famous through its connection with the Ako incident of the forty-seven Ronin in the 18th century.