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Built by Ieyasu Tokugawa in 1603 for his occasional, reluctant visits to Kyoto (under imperial command), the castle was taken over by the Emperor Meiji after the restoration of 1868.
Iemitsu, who was Ieyasu’s grandson and the third Tokugawa shogun (1603–1651), undertook the building of Toshogu.
At Ieyasu’s command, Adams (the model for the hero of James Clavell’s novel Shogun) set up a shipyard in Ito and built Japan’s first two European-style ocean-going vessels.
The latter was built by Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa to split and counteract the powerful influence of Nishi-Honganji, which had attracted thousands of followers with its free-wheeling Buddhism: it allowed priests to marry and have children, permitted the eating of meat, and renounced traditional ascetic practices.
With him are two other worthy companions: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Ieyasu’s mentor, and the great 12th-century warrior Minamoto no Yoritomo, who founded the Kamakura shogunate — and whom Ieyasu claimed as an ancestor.