| Just a short walk from the Asakura Sculpture Museum is the Yanaka Cemetery, which houses the grave of Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837-1913), the fifteenth and final shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate that ruled Japan in the Edo period. While there is no English guidance at the cemetery, it might be of interest to see what the grave of the last shogun looks like. In addition to Yoshinobu's grave, the Yanaka Cemetery also has the graves of many notable politicians, business leaders, soldiers, and scholars. The main road through the cemetery, Sakura-dori, is renowned in Tokyo for its cherry trees, and in late March and early April each year many people go to see the cherry blossoms there. |
