slide (photograph (documentary artefact))

Lantern slide depicting the famous cedars along the Nikko Highway. Nikko is famous for the Toshogu shrine where the first shogun, Tokgawa Ieyasu is enshrined. The cedars were donated by Matsudaira Masatsuna on the 33rd anniversary of the death of the shogun Tokgawa Ieyasu, who died in 1616.

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