Within the quiet, tree lined paths of Ueno Park in Tokyo lies one of Japan’s most elegant yet often overlooked historical treasures, Ueno Tōshō-gū. Built in 1627, this shrine was constructed to honour the memory of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the formidable figure who unified Japan’s fractured feudal domains and established the Tokugawa Shogunate, a regime that would rule Japan in relative peace and stability for over two and a half centuries.