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The shogunate bowed to the pressure and agreed to accept American diplomat Townsend Harris, who established the first US consulate at Gyokusenji temple in Shimoda in 1856.
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.
Engakuji, founded in 1282, became the second most important in the group of monasteries called the Gozan (“Five Mountains”), a hierarchy established in the 14th century for the Zen temples under the official patronage of the shogunate.
After 1868 that center grew even stronger, when the movement known as the Meiji Restoration overthrew the Tokugawa shogunate and the imperial court moved to Edo.
At the south end of the park is the statue of Saigo Takamori, leader of the imperial army that overthrew the shogunate in 1868.