Tokugawa Ieyasu was the final winner of Japan’s 136-year Sengoku era battle royale. His ascension to Shogun at the start of the 17th century marked the beginning of the Edo period: ~250 years of relative peace, stability and, a flowering of art and culture. He was laid to rest in a mausoleum in Kunōzan. This is not that tomb. Later Tokugawa descendants (falsely) claimed to have moved Ieyasu’s remains to this tomb at Nikkō Shrine, a more prestigious location.
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