Eventually, Oishi and his band were also ordered to commit suicide; this they did, and they were buried at Sengakuji with their lord.
Oishi and his followers committed suicide as commanded and were buried in Sengakuji.
Antonio da Sangallo the Elder, architect of many of the town's palazzi, built his masterpiece, the 16th-century church of San Biagio, southwest of town, a gem of High Renaissance architecture hidden at the end of a cypress-lined road with views of the Chiana valley.