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• This is the Gotoku-ji Temple.
• You can make a wish to a cat.
• Cat?
• Maneki-neko.
• It mean a welcoming cat.
• Where is the cat?
• Here.
• Wow.
• When a wish comes true, you can put it here.
• Too much.
• Like a plants.
• Do you know legend of cat?
• I don't know.
• In 1630.
• When Naotaka Ii happened to pass by here...
• Suddenly rain began to fall.
• He took cover from the rain under a tree.
• A cat to beckon appeared.
• Scary. strange cat.
• I think so cute.
• He approached a cat.
• Lightning struck the tree.
• It was a narrow escape.
• The cat helped him.
• He takes shelter from rain in a temple.
• Naotaka contributed much money to temple.
• Here says Naosuke Ii.
• Naosuke Ii is a descendant of Naotaka Ii.
• Naosuke Ii was assassinated.
• Sakuradamon Incident in 1860.
• Why did they killed him?
• He ignored the voice of the Imperial Court and the nation.
• He tied up a trade agreement to USA dogmatically.
• With that as a cause?
• His oppression caused repulsion.
• And the Edo era dies out.
• The Meiji Restoration happens.
• Here was a castle in 1426.
• What is name castle?
• Setagaya castle.
• Is there the legend?
• Stronghold of the Setagaya Castle is Okusawa Castle.
• Okusawa Castle has Fringed orchis legend.