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In the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture, about 150 km (93 miles) north of Tokyo by train, Nikko is the final resting place of Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, who died in 1616.
The shogunate founded great numbers of Zen temples in Kamakura.
At the south end of the park is the statue of Saigo Takamori, leader of the imperial army that overthrew the shogunate in 1868.
Today’s Imperial Palace is on the site of Edo castle, where the Tokugawa shogunate ruled Japan for 265 years; it was thereafter home to the emperors of the modern era.
By 1568, when Kyoto was at last seized from the Ashikaga shogunate, three ruthless generals — Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa — had banded together to eliminate all remaining opposition.