Mannenyama cemetery
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In 1766, Hachisuka Shigeyoshi established a new clan cemetery based on Confucianism and relocated the grave of the 8th daimyō, Hachisuka Muneshige, to the location. The Manneyama cemetery grew to contain the graves of the succeeding daimyō of Tokushima Domain to the 14th and final daimyō Hachisuka Mochiaki, as well as the tombs of 67 wives, concubines, children and relatives. In 1971, the grave of Hachisuka Masakatsu was relocated to this cemetery from the temple of Kokuon-ji in Tennōji-ku, Osaka. The grave area is about 320 meters east–west by about 780 meters north–south, with an inscription engraved on the bedrock of crystalline schist on the hillside, about 3 meters high and about 8 meters wide. Before World War II, the cemetery was maintained by the former vassals of the clan. However, after the war, the cemetery was not well maintained, and many of the gravestones which had collapsed in the 1946 Nankai earthquake were left unrepaired. The National Historic Site designation has released government funding for the restoration of the site .