Site in Nikko, north of Tokyo. Buddhist temple built in the eighth century that would later be the site of the mausoleum of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa Shogun. It was the religious base of the Tokugawa Shogunate after Iemitsu was enshrined, and demonstrates the role religion played in the Tokugawa bakufu. The mausoleum is a National Treasure of Japan.
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