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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.
The 17th-century buildings owe much of their splendor to the structures brought here from Hideyoshi’s opulent Fushimi Castle on the south side of Kyoto (dismantled by a Tokugawa shogun in 1632).
Of the cunning, ruthless triumvirate that came out on top at the end of the country’s century of civil war, Tokugawa was without doubt the most patient, the most prudent — and most treacherous.
The newly found private diary of Yoshihiro Tokugawa, a former grand chamberlain of the imperial court, records a conversation of 1968 in which the emperor said he had always ruled out the possibility of giving up the throne because he had considered it a "sacred duty to pass this nation, which I inherited from my ancestors, on to future generations."
Until the Tokugawa shoguns completed their conquest of all Japan from the 17th century on, the towns of Tohoku constituted the northern boundaries of the Japanese empire.