Kozukappara Execution Grounds

"A three-minute walk from JR Minami-Senju Station. This former execution site, in use from the Edo period through the early Meiji period, was counted among the three execution grounds along with the Suzugamori Execution Grounds and the Owada Execution Grounds. Today, the former execution grounds are a part of the grounds of the Jodo-sect Enmeiji Temple and a Jizo (Kshitigarbha) statue, called the Enmeiji Jizo and nicknamed the ""Beheading Jizo,"" is enshrined on the site. The gravesites of Mito Roushi (samurai), who was involved in the Sakuradamon Incident; and Yoshida Shoin, who was executed in the Ansei Purge, are also located here (although today only the gravestones remain). As scholar Sugita Genpaku, who conducted dissections on executed prisoners, also attended the executions held on the site, a memorial to his medical text the ""Kaitai shinsho"" has also been erected here."