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[[Image:Topknots-47ronin-zuikoin.jpg|right|thumb|320px|Burial site of the [[mage|topknots]] of forty-six of the [[47 Ronin]], at the former site of Zuikô-in.]]
*''Established: [[1613]], [[Yamazaki Iemori]] and [[Takuho Sorin Osho|Takuho Sôrin Oshô]]''
*''Japanese'': 瑞光院 ''(zuikou-in)''
Zuikô-in was a temple in Kyoto associated with the [[Asano clan]] of [[Ako han|Akô han]] in [[Harima province]].
The temple was founded in [[1613]] by [[Yamazaki Samanosuke Iemori]], lord of [[Wakasa castle]] (in what is today [[Tottori prefecture]]), along with [[Takuho Sorin Osho|Takuho Sôrin Oshô]] of [[Daitoku-ji]], on the former site of the mansion of [[Asano Nagamasa]].
After the [[Yamazaki clan]] died out in [[1657]], the temple came to be associated with the Asano family of Akô in Harima province. As a result of [[Asano Naganori|Asano Naganori's]] famous attack on [[Kira Yoshinaka]] in [[1701]], the Asano family also came to ruin. [[Oishi Kuranosuke|Ôishi Kuranosuke]] then buried Naganori's court headdress at the temple, erected a stone over it in honor of his lord, and paid formal visits on numerous occasions.
Before 46 of the [[47 ronin]] killed themselves in [[1703]], Sôgai, the abbot of Zuikôin, received their severed topknots (''[[mage|magé]]'') from the [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]], [[Hosokawa clan|Hosokawa]], [[Mizuno clan|Mizuno]], and [[Mori clan|Môri]] families who had been entrusted with them. Returning to the capital, in accordance with the dying wish of Ôishi Kuranosuke, Sôgai enshrined their hair in a bottle or pot, burying it next to the grave of their lord Asano Naganori. A stone tower was then placed atop the site as a marker, inscribed with the names of the 46 ronin. As [[Terasaka Kichiemon]] did not commit [[seppuku]] alongside the other 46, his name was not included.
The temple was moved along with that tower to the Yamashina district of Kyoto in 1962.
==References==
*Plaque on-site at former site of Zuikô-in.
==External Links==
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E7%91%9E%E5%85%89%E9%99%A2%E5%89%8D%E7%94%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.037731,135.751743&spn=0.001076,0.002012&sll=35.037736,135.751748&sspn=0.004779,0.004023&t=h&hnear=Zuikoin+Maecho,+Kamigyo+Ward,+Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&z=18&layer=c&cbll=35.037732,135.751743&panoid=7-rsjckoXLunGFWEs0kWig&cbp=11,284.74,,1,-0.17 Former site of Zuikôin, at Horikawa-Shimei]
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E5%B1%B1%E7%A7%91%E5%8C%BA%E5%AE%89%E6%9C%B1%E5%A0%82%E3%83%8E%E5%BE%8C%E7%94%BA19-2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=35.034688,135.754237&sspn=0.004744,0.004023&t=h&hnear=Japan,+Ky%C5%8Dto-fu,+Ky%C5%8Dto-shi,+Yamashina-ku,+Anshud%C5%8Dnoushiroch%C5%8D,+%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%99%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92&z=16 Zuikô-in's current location in Yamashina, on Google Maps]
*''Established: [[1613]], [[Yamazaki Iemori]] and [[Takuho Sorin Osho|Takuho Sôrin Oshô]]''
*''Japanese'': 瑞光院 ''(zuikou-in)''
Zuikô-in was a temple in Kyoto associated with the [[Asano clan]] of [[Ako han|Akô han]] in [[Harima province]].
The temple was founded in [[1613]] by [[Yamazaki Samanosuke Iemori]], lord of [[Wakasa castle]] (in what is today [[Tottori prefecture]]), along with [[Takuho Sorin Osho|Takuho Sôrin Oshô]] of [[Daitoku-ji]], on the former site of the mansion of [[Asano Nagamasa]].
After the [[Yamazaki clan]] died out in [[1657]], the temple came to be associated with the Asano family of Akô in Harima province. As a result of [[Asano Naganori|Asano Naganori's]] famous attack on [[Kira Yoshinaka]] in [[1701]], the Asano family also came to ruin. [[Oishi Kuranosuke|Ôishi Kuranosuke]] then buried Naganori's court headdress at the temple, erected a stone over it in honor of his lord, and paid formal visits on numerous occasions.
Before 46 of the [[47 ronin]] killed themselves in [[1703]], Sôgai, the abbot of Zuikôin, received their severed topknots (''[[mage|magé]]'') from the [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]], [[Hosokawa clan|Hosokawa]], [[Mizuno clan|Mizuno]], and [[Mori clan|Môri]] families who had been entrusted with them. Returning to the capital, in accordance with the dying wish of Ôishi Kuranosuke, Sôgai enshrined their hair in a bottle or pot, burying it next to the grave of their lord Asano Naganori. A stone tower was then placed atop the site as a marker, inscribed with the names of the 46 ronin. As [[Terasaka Kichiemon]] did not commit [[seppuku]] alongside the other 46, his name was not included.
The temple was moved along with that tower to the Yamashina district of Kyoto in 1962.
==References==
*Plaque on-site at former site of Zuikô-in.
==External Links==
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E7%91%9E%E5%85%89%E9%99%A2%E5%89%8D%E7%94%BA&hl=en&ie=UTF8&ll=35.037731,135.751743&spn=0.001076,0.002012&sll=35.037736,135.751748&sspn=0.004779,0.004023&t=h&hnear=Zuikoin+Maecho,+Kamigyo+Ward,+Kyoto,+Kyoto+Prefecture,+Japan&z=18&layer=c&cbll=35.037732,135.751743&panoid=7-rsjckoXLunGFWEs0kWig&cbp=11,284.74,,1,-0.17 Former site of Zuikôin, at Horikawa-Shimei]
*[http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%E4%BA%AC%E9%83%BD%E5%B8%82%E5%B1%B1%E7%A7%91%E5%8C%BA%E5%AE%89%E6%9C%B1%E5%A0%82%E3%83%8E%E5%BE%8C%E7%94%BA19-2&hl=en&ie=UTF8&sll=35.034688,135.754237&sspn=0.004744,0.004023&t=h&hnear=Japan,+Ky%C5%8Dto-fu,+Ky%C5%8Dto-shi,+Yamashina-ku,+Anshud%C5%8Dnoushiroch%C5%8D,+%EF%BC%91%EF%BC%99%E2%88%92%EF%BC%92&z=16 Zuikô-in's current location in Yamashina, on Google Maps]