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Shinshiro-City Horaisan Toshogu Shrine
A shrine thanks to strong family ties
When shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu made a pilgrimage to Toshogu Shrine in Nikko, Tochigi Prefecture in April, 1648, he read that his great grandfather and grandmother prayed at Horaiji Temple in distant Aichi Prefecture for the birth of a strong son, who would go on to become Iemitsu's grandfather and Japanese hero Tokugawa Ieyasu.
Moved by this piece of familial history, he ordered the construction of a Toshogu Shrine at Mt. Horaiji, where the original temple his great grandparents prayed at was and still is located. The shrine was completed in 1651 during the reign of Iemitsu's son and the fourth shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, Tokugawa Ietsuna.
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