anraku-ji

Updated: May 12, 2025

Even oil for a night-lamp was often unprocurable, and after spending twenty-five months in voluntary confinement with only the society of his sorrows, he expired at the age of fifty-eight, and was buried in the temple Anraku-ji in Chikuzen. No figure in Japanese history has received such an abundant share of national sympathy.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era