The site of Japan’s final samurai revenge killing.
The parents of Rokuro Usui – a notable local samurai – were assassinated due to political conflict within the domain in the last year of the Edo period (1868).
Thirteen years later, Rokuro successfully tracked down and murdered his parent’s killers to avenge their death. During the Edo period this would have been praised as a samurai's honor but legal shifts during the new Meiji period meant that it became a high-profile scandal. He was sentenced to imprisonment by the new government.
Originally a house, today the site of this historic event is found at the corner of a rice field. Rokuro Usui’s grave can be found alongside many other family members in the Koshin-ji Temple.
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