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[[File:Sakuradamon-kawaraban.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The event as depicted in a ''[[kawaraban]]'' from the time]]
[[File:Sakuradamon.jpg|right|thumb|320px|The Sakuradamon as it appears today]]
*''Date: [[1860]]/3/3''
*''Japanese'': 桜田門外の変 ''(Sakuradamon gai no hen)''

The ''[[Tairo|Tairô]]'' [[Ii Naosuke]] was assassinated just outside the Sakuradamon (Sakurada Gate) of [[Edo castle]], by a group of eighteen men, on [[1860]]/3/3. The plot was organized and executed chiefly by ''[[ronin|rônin]]'' from [[Mito han]], possibly at the direction of the lord of Mito, [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], whose supporters had been pushed out of government by Naosuke in the [[Ansei Purges]]. The event is cited among those which led to the downfall of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] eight years later.