【World Heritage】Nikko Toshogu Shrine【Shrines and Temples of Nikko】
Nikko Toshogu is a Shinto shrine established in 1617 to enshrine Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. Ieyasu was born on December 26, 1542 in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa (present day Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture). After a great deal of hardship from an early age he succeeded in pacifying the country after a turbulent period of conflict and established the Tokugawa shogunate system in 1603. His actions brought order and organization to Japanese society while promoting scholarship and industry. Ieyasu laid the foundation for over 260 years of peace and culture during the Edo Period, greatly contributing to the development of modern Japan. Ieyasu died aged 75 at Sunpu Castle (present day Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture) on April 17, 1616, and his remains were immediately buried at Kunozan. In accordance with his Will, one year later, on April 15, 1617, his remains were entombed at their present location. Ieyasu’s enshrinement ceremony was solemnly conducted at the then Tosho Shrine, as it was originally called and the fore-runner of the present Toshogu Shrine, on April 17 in the presence of Tokugawa Hidetada, the second shogun, and other members of the shogunate and imperial court. The shrine was subsequently given the designation Toshogu in 1645.
The main buildings that you see today were rebuilt in 1636 by the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu.
Sakurayama Nikkokan, Takayama, Japan, 2019
One-tenth scale replica of Nikko-Toshogu Shrine are exhibited in this museum. Nikko-Toshogu enshrined Ieyasu Tokugawa (the first Shougun (generalissimo) Tokugawa shogunnate), which is located in Tochigi-pref, near Tokyo. It took 15 years to make this, master work around the Taisho era (1912-1925), and 33 skillful carpenters were engaged in. It contains of 28 buildings, Main shirine, Worship Hall, Five storied pagoda and so on. This replica had been shown in various parts of the United States after the war, and when Aoi haku (the exposition in Okazaki) was held in 1990, this replica had been shown in Japan 30 years later. hidahachimangu.jp
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