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*''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.

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==References==
*Gallery labels, Edo-Tokyo Museum.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/11269412474/sizes/k/]

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