| The Tokugawa shoguns forbade the building of any ships large enough to sail the open ocean, and no one was allowed to leave the country. |
| During the next two centuries, under the leadership of successive shoguns, Japan gradually achieved a stable population and more sustainable rates of resource consumption. |
| The shoguns were military rulers and a number of them were men of great force and executive ability. |
| Besides them, are buried five wives of the shoguns, and the father of the eleventh Shogun. |
| But the chief objects of interest in these beautiful grounds are the chapels attached to the tombs of the shoguns. |
| The Tokugawa shogunate was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. |
