Wakayama Hanshu Tokugawake Bosho (Graveyard for the Tokugawa family, feudal lords of the domain of kishu (Wakayama))

 The graveyard is 3.4 hectares in total land area and has 28tombs. This graveyard was founded under the will of TokugawaYorinobu(1602-1671), the eighth son of Tokugawa Ieyas u(1542-1616) and the founder of the Tokugawa family in the feudal domain of Wakayama (then known as Kishu). The tombs of all the feudal lords of the domain of Kishu can be found in this gravayard exce pt those of Tokugawa Yoshimune (fifth feudal lord) and Tokugawa Yoshitomi (thirteenth feudal lord) who wereeach given the title of Shogun.



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