But the chief objects of interest in these beautiful grounds are the chapels attached to the tombs of the shoguns. |
The Tokugawa shoguns forbade the building of any ships large enough to sail the open ocean, and no one was allowed to leave the country. |
This question I asked the guide, who plunged me in a tangle of Daimios and shoguns, all manifestly extracted from a guide-book. |
The Kyoto Imperial Palace and the Nijo Castle, former home of the shoguns, are situated right in the heart of the city. |
Besides them, are buried five wives of the shoguns, and the father of the eleventh Shogun. |
The younger brother of Minamoto no Yoritomo, who first established the government of the shoguns. |