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Tokyo, Sengaku-ji, a woman dressed with traditional kimono in Chumon Sengaku-ji temple, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, 18th century. 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.