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山鹿素行
Confucian scholar and military theorist of the early Edo period. Exiled to Ako, he spent more than eight years in Oishi Tanomonosuke's mansion in the castle's second enclosure, and is said to have redesigned the Ninomaru gateway.
In his diary Soko recorded being invited to tea at a pavilion in the Ninomaru garden and entertained with boating on a pond he called Kintai-ike. His notes help explain the garden revealed by excavation.
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Akō, Hyogo
赤穂城
In the main enclosure, the floor plan of the palace where Oishi Kuranosuke and the Ako retainers of the Chushingura story gathered is laid out on the ground.
said to have redesigned the Ninomaru gatewayRecord source: article
