Sunpu

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Sunpu (駿府) is the former name of Shizuoka City in Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It is a contraction of Suruga no Kokufu (駿河の国府), meaning the seat of government of Suruga Province. Tokugawa Ieyasu spent his youth in Sunpu as a hostage of Imagawa Yoshimoto. Ieyasu later retired to and died in Sunpu after his reign as shogun.

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