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Stone lanterns, donated over the centuries by 'daimyo' (feudal lords), stand in one of the courtyards of the Taiyuin-byo Shrine. It is the mausoleum of the third shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604-51), whose posthumous Buddhist name was Taiyuin, and was completed in 1653.

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Uploaded on April 15, 2016
Taken on January 1, 1980