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*''Japanese'': 万松院 ''(Banshouin)''

*''Japanese'': 万松院 ''(Banshouin)''

Banshôin in Izuhara, on [[Tsushima Island]], is the family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') of the [[So clan|Sô clan]], lords of [[Tsushima han|Tsushima domain]].

Banshôin in Izuhara, on [[Tsushima Island]], is the family temple (''[[bodaiji]]'') of the [[So clan|Sô clan]], lords of [[Tsushima han|Tsushima domain]]. [[So Sadakuni|Sô Sadakuni]] (r. [[1468]]-[[1492]]) and all [[Edo period]] lords from [[So Yoshitoshi|Sô Yoshitoshi]] (r. [[1588]]-[[1615]]) onwards are buried there.  

[[So Sadakuni|Sô Sadakuni]] (r. [[1468]]-[[1492]]) and all [[Edo period]] lords from [[So Yoshitoshi|Sô Yoshitoshi]] (r. [[1588]]-[[1615]]) onwards are buried there.

A lengthy set of stone stairs known as ''[[gangi|hyakugangi]]'' leads up to two levels of gravesites. About halfway up the stairs is the "central mausoleum," or ''naka otamaya'', a space including the graves of Sô Sadakuni and other earlier lords of Tsushima, as well as of their wives and children. At the top of the stairs is the "upper mausoleum," or ''kami otamaya'', featuring the graves of Edo period lords and their wives and children, from Sô Yoshitoshi through to 20th century heads of the family such as Count [[So Takeyuki|Sô Takeyuki]] ([[1908]]-1985; grandson of second-to-last lord of the domain [[So Yoshiyori|Sô Yoshiyori]]).

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==References==

==References==

*James Lewis, ''Frontier Contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan'', Routledge (2003), 95.

*James Lewis, ''Frontier Contact between Choson Korea and Tokugawa Japan'', Routledge (2003), 95.

[[Category:Temples]]

[[Category:Temples]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]