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The Tokugawa shoguns, however, sensed that the internal strains might be contained, by sheer brute force if necessary, as long as new pressures were not exerted from outside by foreigners once again offering disgruntled daimyo new sources of income.
The Tokugawa thus celebrated the ancestral religion of Shinto — glorified by the monumentally opulent shrines they built at Nikko.
The successive Tokugawa leaders established their power base around their castle in Edo and developed a clever system of keeping the feudal lords (the daimyo) under their tributary thumb.
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.
The waterfalls and forested hills of the Nikko National Park area are a welcome respite to the monumentality of Tokugawa architecture.