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| （５）Oishi Kuranosuke ordered 300 odd retainersof Asano Takuminokami to meet at Ako Castle. They discussed siege,capitulation,vengeance and self-immolation. Oishi Kuranosuke decided on capitulation,and about 50 or so ageed with him. |
（６）Oishi Kuranosuke delivered the officers of the Shogunate to Ako Castle on April 19,1701. Oishi Kuranosuke withdrew from the Simizu-mon gate of Ako Castle. |
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| （７）Oishi Kuranosuke moved Yamashina,Kyoto from Ako
in June. He sought venegeance upon Kira kozukenosuke go having communicated with his comrades. He visited chaya (the red-right district) in Gion and Shimabara, Kyoto, many times to get back Kira and Uesugi's spy. |
（８）Nakayama Yasube who was a masterless samurai assisted Sugano Rokurozaemon in a fight and killed four samurais in Takatanobaba,1693. As a consequence, he became the son-in-law of the Horibe Yahei family (Asano Takuminokami's retainer). |
