Execution site Kozukahara

Arakawa ku South Senjyu 5-33
  • This is Minami Senjyu Station.
  • North entrance of the Edo area.
  • What was there at south entrance?
  • Execution site Suzugamori.
  • Correct.
  • This is the Execution site Kozukahara.
  • The place when their head is to be cut off in Edo era.
  • Historic spot is in Kozukahara Ekouin Temple.
  • Hey, This looks Enmeiji on signboard to me.
  • Did you get a wrong name?
  • I am right.
  • A railway divided the Kozukahara Ekouin Temple.
  • The north of the railway is Kozukahara Ekouin Temple.
  • The south of the railway is Enmeiji.
  • That stone statue is Kubikiri Jizo in Enmeiji.
  • It was made in 1741.
  • He is calm face.
  • Let's go to the north side of the railway.
  • Pass through the tunnel.
  • You can arrive at the Kozukahara Ekouin Temple.
  • Celebrity's grave is there.
  • Who?
  • Shoin Yoshida, Naojiro Kataoka, Oden Takahashi.
  • and Shinji Gentatsu.
  • Who is Gentatsu?
  • He is a thief. His nickname is Kozo Nezumi.
  • Who is Oden Takahashi?
  • The woman who was beheaded as the last in Japan.
  • Woman? wow..
  • What does the decapitation use?
  • Katana.
  • Do Katana cut well?
  • Well..
  • Not fail?
  • There is an specialist.
  • Specialist of the execution?
  • His name is Asaemon Yamada.
  • He is executioners.
  • Boogeyman?
  • He is a gentlemanly professional.
  • He cut for trial on here.
  • What did he cut?
  • Human body?
  • He certified sword and examined it.
  • He is valuer of sword.
  • He was allowed to took the body.
  • He made medicine with the internal organs.
  • What medicine?
  • For tuberculosis.
  • I think that there is not an effect.
  • Medical care was delayed in old days.
  • Tuberculosis was not cured.
  • Is he intellectual?
  • He wrote a song.
  • He condoled with the dead person positively.
  • Good person.
  • There is a man who already left a name to grace history.
  • I'm feel sick.
  • They changed the Japanese history.
  • Who?
  • Genpaku Sugita.
  • Ryoutaku Maeno.
  • Jyunan Nakagawa.
  • I know Genpaku Sugita.
  • Who did what?
  • He translated Taheru Anatomia into Japanese.
  • He confirmed German medical book was right.
  • He performed an autopsy here.
  • He did a grand thing.
  • No more I would.
  • Why?
  • I feel sick with the dead body.
  • Do you want to hear Oden Takahashi's story?