Sakuradamon Incident

The Sakuradamon Incident (桜田門外の変, Sakuradamon-gai no Hen; or 桜田門の変 Sakuradamon no Hen) was the assassination of Ii Naosuke, Chief Minister (Tairō) of the Tokugawa shogunate, on March 24, 1860, by rōnin samurai of the Mito and Satsuma Domains, outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.