#Tokugawa Funerary Temple

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Shiba Daimon at Night por Rekishi no Tabi Por Flickr: This is the rebuilt outer gate that leads to Zōjō-ji in Shiba, Tokyo. Zōjō-ji is affiliated with the Jodo sect of Buddhism, which was founded by Honen Shonin in 1175. Zōjō-ji was built in 1393, but Tokugawa Ieyasu moved it to its current site in the Shiba are of Minato-ku in 1598 as he began to build up the city of Edo—which was what Tokyo was called until 1868. Zojo-ji became the patron temple of the Tokugawa and the final resting place for many of the shoguns—hence the temple and its gates are decorated with the hollyhock family crest of the Tokugawa clan.

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May 28- Asakusa/Edo Museum

     I really enjoyed my first (technically second) day in Japan. At first, the train system worried me a bit since there are so many stations and sometimes we would have to transfer fast to avoid our next train. But it was worth the small bit of stress when we made it to Asakusa. I was really excited to see the shrine after learning more about Buddhism in the readings. I was surprised to see the giant sandals once we entered the last gate before the actual shrine. It was interesting to find out that they are made to ward off demons, amongst the other forms of protection the temple has, like the demon tiles. At Asakusa, I ate a chocolate bun and drank Oji Ocha. I really loved the bun but didn’t like the tea too much since it wasn’t that sweet. I guess I’m just really used to sweet tea at home 😂. I also really enjoyed the Fukagawa Edo Museum and the city reconstruction exhibit. It was amazing to see what the towns used to be like in the Edo period and learn about some of the buildings that existed back then along with their functions. It was nice to be able to go inside some of the buildings as well as try some of the tools that were inside them. After the Edo Museum, I ended up going back to the hotel since I was really tired. Then I ended up going to 7-11 to try some of the ice cream brands. Overall, I really enjoyed my first day and can’t wait for the other activities in the program.

     When we reached the temple, I had started to think about which sect of Buddhism Asakusa belonged to. It was interesting to learn that there were quite a few different sects that were fighting for dominance within the overall denomination of Buddhism. I was also surprised to see that there wasn’t any sort of political endorsement at any of the stands that I passed or near the temple itself. Since the first reading described how Buddhism started branching out into politics through its own political parties, I had expected a major shrine to take part in the same trend. The first reading also made me curious to find out if any of the larger Buddhist shrines still perform funerary services, which is what many shrines back then were known to do. It may be more common amongst the smaller, neighborhood shrines though.

    Within the Fukagawa Edo Museum, one of the guides explained that one of the buildings within the exhibit was a fire tower. It was nice to connect that building to the third reading, which mentioned that fire was a big concern in the Edo period due to several large fires occurring during the earlier Tokugawa period. The dirt roads in the exhibit had betrayed my expectation of the newer roads that the Bakufu were building to help improve transportation. 

Overall, the readings made me more curious about the sites that we visited and encouraged me to conduct my own research.

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As a result, the entire clan was able to evade the punishment meted out by the government on the northern domains. The Kuroishi branch joined the Hirosaki-Tsugaru in siding with the imperial government. It did not take part in any of the major military action against the imperial army. However, it soon switched course, and was briefly a signatory to the pact that created the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei, before backing out, once again in favor of the imperial government. Aomori Prefecture, which contains the former Hirosaki and Kuroishi territories, is highlighted in dark green.ĭuring the Boshin War of 1868-69, the Tsugaru clan first sided with the imperial government, and attacked the forces of the nearby Shōnai Domain. In the late Edo period, during the headship of Tsugaru Tsuguakira, the Hirosaki domain's forces were modernized along western lines. Though neither Tsugaru daimyo family ever held shogunate office, the Tsugaru of Hirosaki (together with many of the other domains of northern Honshū) assisted the shogunate in policing the frontier region of Ezochi (now Hokkaido). The main Tsugaru family's funerary temple in Hirosaki was located at Chōshō-ji. A lesser branch was founded by Tsugaru Nobuzumi, the son of the first Kuroishi-Tsugaru family head this branch remained hatamoto through the end of the Edo period. In 1821, there was a foiled plot by Sōma Daisaku, a former retainer of the Nanbu clan, to assassinate the Tsugaru lord this stemmed from the old enmity between the two clans.Ī major branch of the Tsugaru clan was founded in 1656, which was first given hatamoto rank, before being promoted to daimyo status in 1809 this became the ruling family of the Kuroishi Domain, which immediately bordered its parent family's domain.

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The early years of the Edo era were marked by a series of major O-Ie Sōdō disturbances that shook the Tsugaru family: the Tsugaru Disturbance ( 津軽騒動, Tsugaru-sōdō ?) of 1607, Kōsaka Kurando's Riot ( 高坂蔵人の乱, Kōsaka Kurando no ran ?) of 1612, the Funabashi Disturbance ( 船橋騒動, Funabashi-sōdō ?) of 1634, and the Shōhō Disturbance ( 正保騒動, Shōhō-sōdō ?) of 1647. Tamenobu remained politically active in the early years of the Edo era, mainly in the Kansai area he died in Kyoto in 1608. The domain started out small at 45,000 koku, before being increased in size to 100,000 koku. After the Tokugawa victory at Sekigahara, the Tsugaru clan was granted an increase in territory, along with permission to keep its existing domain of Hirosaki (named for the family's castle town). Its immediate neighbors also all supported the Eastern Army. The Tsugaru clan sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern Army during the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. Main articles: Hirosaki Domain and Kuroishi Domain Tsugaru (Ōura) Tamenobu The Tsugaru in the Edo era As the Ōura fief had been in the Tsugaru region on the northern tip of Honshū, the family then changed its name to Tsugaru. In 1590, Tamenobu pledged fealty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi Hideyoshi confirmed Tamenobu in his holdings. The Ōura clan's fight against the Nanbu clan, under Nanbu Nobunao, would continue in the ensuing years. Tamenobu also attacked Kitabatake Akimura (another local power figure) and took his castle at Namioka. He had been vice-district magistrate ( 郡代補佐, gundai hosa ?) under the Nanbu clan's local magistrate Ishikawa Takanobu however, he attacked and killed Ishikawa and began taking the Nanbu clan's castles. Relations between the two families soured after the Ōura declared their independence from the Nanbu in 1571, during the headship of Ōura Tamenobu. It was first known as the Ōura clan ( 大浦氏, Ōura-shi ?), a branch family of the Nanbu clan, which ruled sections of northern Mutsu Province. The Tsugaru clan initially claimed descent from the Kawachi Genji branch of the Minamoto clan in later years, this claim of origin would change to the Konoe family, which was a branch of the Fujiwara clan.

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<strong>Vintage Ueno Tōshōgū <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/rekishinotabi/">by Rekishi no Tabi</a></strong> <br /><i>Via Flickr:</i> <br />I took this at dusk on December 23, 2014. I wasn't happy with the photo but decided to do some experimenting with vintage-type processing. And this is the result I got. And I have to say, I like it. I hope you all do, too.

After his death, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Ieyasu, was deified as a Shinto god. There are numerous shrines that are devoted to him throughout Japan, the most famous and elaborate, being in Nikkō. This one was built in 1616 on the once massive grounds of the Kanei-ji Buddhist temple that is now Ueno Park, Tokyo. Kanei-ji was patronized by the Tokugawa and was one of the funerary temples for the shoguns. What is left of the original temple itself is just this shrine, which was apart of the temple, some stone lanterns and a 5-story pagoda. Kanei-ji itself got a new hall that was transferred from another temple in Kawagoe and it now sits outside Ueno Park, on what was originally the sight of a sub-temple.