Sengakuji Temple

This temple is famous as the burial place of a lord and the loyal retainers who avenged his death in an early eighteenth-century episode celebrated in theatre and film. Their graves, ranged in rows and wreathed in incense smoke left by visitors, draw a steady stream of admirers, and a small museum displays relics connected to the vendetta. An annual festival in December commemorates the raid. The temple's enduring role in a national story of loyalty and sacrifice gives its otherwise modest grounds a lasting resonance.