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Tales of Old Japan - Maybe You Like It

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admired by the <strong>Japan</strong>ese. There are only three such lanterns in the empire;<br />

the other two being at Nanzenji—a temple in Kiyôto, and Atsura, a<br />

shrine in the province <strong>of</strong> Owari. All three were erected by the piety <strong>of</strong><br />

one man, Sakuma Daizen no Suké, in the year A.D. 1631.<br />

Iyémitsu, the founder <strong>of</strong> the temple, was buried with his grandfather,<br />

Iyéyasu, at Nikkô; but both <strong>of</strong> these princes are honoured with shrines<br />

here. The Shoguns who are interred at Uyéno are Iyétsuna, Tsunayoshi,<br />

Yoshimuné, Iyéharu, Iyénori, and Iyésada, the fourth, fifth, eighth, tenth,<br />

eleventh, and thirteenth Princes <strong>of</strong> the Line. Besides them, are buried five<br />

wives <strong>of</strong> the Shoguns, and the father <strong>of</strong> the eleventh Shogun.<br />

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