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| Title | Ieyasu Tokugawa statue |
|---|---|
| Location | 2-2,Mutsumi-cho,Utsunomiya-Shi,Tochigi |
| Cities / Towns | Utsunomiya |
| Owner / Manager | Tochigi Prefectural Museum |
| Description | Ieyasu Tokugawa originally called himself Matsudaira Motoyasu and was a feudal lord based in Mikawa (Aichi Prefecture). He was a vassal of Yoshimoto Imagawa, who ruled Suruga and Totomi, but when Yoshimoto was defeated and died in the Battle of Okehazama, he became independent from Imagawa and allied with Nobunaga Oda. He aimed to unify the country with Nobunaga, but Nobunaga died in the Honno-ji Incident. Afterward, he fought against his successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but later became a vassal. After Hideyoshi unified the country, he was transferred to the Kanto region and managed the territory mainly in Edo. After Hideyoshi's death, Ieyasu won the Battle of Sekigahara, became the Great Shogun, and established a shogunate in Edo. And he laid the foundation for a government that would last for about 250 years. Ieyasu died in Sunpu (Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture) in Genna2(1616). After his body was buried in Kunozan (in the same city), it was moved to Nikko Toshosha Shrine (later Toshogu Shrine) on the first anniversary of his death, according to Ieyasu's will. |
| Copyright | CC BY-NC-ND（表示－非営利－改変禁止） |
