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[[Tenkai]], another Buddhist priest and shogunal advisor, however, managed to arrange for Ieyasu's body and spirit to be relocated to [[Nikko|Nikkô]] before the end of that year. Though Kunôzan Tôshôgû remains active and prominent, [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]] grew to overshadow it almost immediately.
[[Tenkai]], another Buddhist priest and shogunal advisor, however, managed to arrange for Ieyasu's body and spirit to be relocated to [[Nikko|Nikkô]] before the end of that year. Though Kunôzan Tôshôgû remains active and prominent, [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]] grew to overshadow it almost immediately.
Over the course of the [[Edo period]], ''daimyô'' and others regularly made offerings (or gave gifts) to the shrine as an act intertwined with notions of fealty to the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shoguns]]. The treasure house museum at the shrine today regularly displays a number of objects associated with Ieyasu and his successors, including: the [[Kunozan Toshogu clock]] (the oldest extant European-made clock in Japan, made in Belgium in [[1573]]); eyeglasses, pencils, scissors, a drawing compass, glass medicine phials, and [[teppo|matchlock firearms]] and ammunition once owned by Ieyasu himself;<ref>Including one matchlock gun (''hinawajû'') made by a maker named Kiyotaka 清堯 around 1612 or 1613.</ref> numerous swords associated with various Tokugawa shoguns or prominent Edo period ''daimyô''; a number of ''some-tsuke'' and [[Tenmoku]] teabowls; a large chunk of [[aloeswood]] from Southeast Asia; various hats and helmets owned by the Tokugawa shoguns, including European-style military caps;<ref>Including one in a French style, gifted to Shogun [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] by Napoleon III.</ref> and a number of paintings produced by the shoguns.
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==References==
==References==
*Plaques and gallery labels on-site at Kunôzan Tôshôgû.
*Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 146.
*Morgan Pitelka, ''Spectacular Accumulation'', University of Hawaii Press (2016), 146.
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