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| （１３）Otaka Gengo met his friend Takarai Kikaku,the famous haiku-poet and the pupil of Matsuo Basho on the Ryogoku Bridge. They composed haiku poem,the seventeen-syllabled verse with one other. Takarai Kikaku guessed that there had been a raid on Kira's mansion from the lower hemistich of Otaka Gengo. |
（１４）Oishi Kuranosuke, his son Chikara and 45 retainers raided Kira's mansion in December 14,1702. |
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| （１５）Simizu Ichigaku who was the page of Kira Kozukenosuke used two swords and fought on against with the Ako retainers. Chikamatsu Kanroku fell in the pond. |
（１６）After 2 hours of the raid,Hazama Jujiro found
out Kira Kozukenosuke who was hiden in a charcoal house. Oishi Kuranosuke finished with a the stab in Kira Kozukenosuke's neck using his sword. |
