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[[File:Nikko-okariden.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The Okariden]]
[[File:Nikko-okariden.jpg|right|thumb|400px|The Okariden]]
[[File:Ieyasu-grave.jpg|right|thumb|400px|''Hôtô'' pagoda marking the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, in the Inner Shrine (''okusha'').]]
[[File:Ieyasu-grave.jpg|right|thumb|400px|''Hôtô'' pagoda marking the mausoleum of Tokugawa Ieyasu, in the Inner Shrine (''okusha'').]]
[[File:Nikko-iron-lanterns.jpg|right|thumb|400px|A pair of iron lanterns donated to the shrine by [[Date Masamune]]]]
The site was chosen by Tokugawa Ieyasu himself for this purpose, i.e., namely, the location of a mausoleum and shrine to him as a deified protector of the country. As Nikkô is located directly north of the Tokugawa capital of [[Edo]], some have suggested that the site was chosen as part of a discourse connecting Tôshô-daigongen (the deified Ieyasu) with the North Star, as a protective deity.<ref>Maehira Fusaaki, "''Edo bakufu to Ryûkyû shisetsu - Tôshôgû sankei wo chûshin ni''" 江戸幕府と琉球使節～東照宮参詣を中心に, in ''Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku!'', Okinawa Prefectural Museum (2009), 67.</ref>
The site was chosen by Tokugawa Ieyasu himself for this purpose, i.e., namely, the location of a mausoleum and shrine to him as a deified protector of the country. As Nikkô is located directly north of the Tokugawa capital of [[Edo]], some have suggested that the site was chosen as part of a discourse connecting Tôshô-daigongen (the deified Ieyasu) with the North Star, as a protective deity.<ref>Maehira Fusaaki, "''Edo bakufu to Ryûkyû shisetsu - Tôshôgû sankei wo chûshin ni''" 江戸幕府と琉球使節～東照宮参詣を中心に, in ''Ryûkyû shisetsu, Edo he iku!'', Okinawa Prefectural Museum (2009), 67.</ref>
