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Sakuradamon Incident
1860 assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke
Details
- Instance of
- assassination
- Date
- 24 March 1860
- Location
- Sakurada-mon
- Located in
- Edo
- Country
- Japan
- armament
- Colt 1851 Navy Revolver, Japanese sword
- has cause
- Ansei Purge
- native label
- 桜田門外の変, 桜田事変
- number of perpetrators
- 18
- perpetrator
- Tetsunosuke Seki, Takenosuke Sano, Kurosawa Chūzaburō, Ōzeki Washichirō, Hasuda Ichigorō, Kaigo Sakinosuke, Arimura Jizaemon
- target
- Ii Naosuke
- time period
- Bakumatsu
- victim(s)
- Ii Naosuke, Nagata Taroube
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