shoguns

Near at hand are the temples and tombs of the six shoguns of the Tokugawa family, buried in Uyeno Park.

Here, also, are eight tablets erected to the memory of eight mothers of shoguns, all of whom were concubines.

The great war drum of Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa shoguns, lies upon a richly decorated stand.

This feudal lord became a dictator, and had the military power in his hands, like the shoguns in nineteenth-century Japan.