Sakurada Gate
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| Sakurada Gate | |
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桜田門 | |
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| General information | |
| Type | Gate |
| Location | Tokyo Imperial Palace, Tokyo, Japan |
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| Known for | The Sakuradamon Incident of 1860 The Sakuradamon Incident of 1932 |
Sakurada Gate (桜田門, sakurada-mon) is a gate in the inner moat of Tokyo Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan.
It was the location of the Sakuradamon Incident in 1860, in which Tairō Ii Naosuke was assassinated outside the gate by samurai of the Mito Domain and Satsuma Domain.
In 1932, it was the location of another assassination attempt, when Korean independence activist Lee Bong-chang attempted to kill Emperor Hirohito as his procession passed through the gate.
Opposite Sakurada Gate is the headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which is also metonymically called "Sakurada Gate" (akin to London's Scotland Yard).[1]
Access
[edit | edit source]- Sakuradamon Station (Yūrakuchō Line)
- Kasumigaseki Station (Marunouchi, Hibiya, and Chiyoda lines)
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ 霞が関、桜田門、兜町…「別の意味」でも使われる東京の地名 - Money post web(01/14/2020)
External links
[edit | edit source]- Error creating thumbnail: File missing Media related to Lua error in Module:Commons_link at line 62: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). at Wikimedia Commons
- Soto Sakurada-mon Gate at Chiyoda Ward Tourism's official website (English)
