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Tokugawa

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the most notable member of the Tokugawa clan and founder of its shogunate


Arima clan

In the Shimabara Rebellion, former Arima vassals, many Christian, made one of the most significant threats to Tokugawa rule.

Battle of Komaki and Nagakute

Mizuno Tadashige led Tokugawa's rearguard against Ikeda's force and the noise of the battle alerted Hori Hidemasa, the head of one of Hideyoshi's divisions.

Enomoto Takeaki

Enomoto became one of the few former Tokugawa loyalists who made the transition to the new ruling elite, as politics at the time was dominated by men from Chōshū and Satsuma, who had a strong bias against outsiders in general, and former Tokugawa retainers in particular.

Enpō

-- NengoCalc 延宝八年三月八日 --> : Tokugawa Ietsuna, the 4th shogun of the Edo bakufu died; and his named successor, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, was ready to take his place as the 5th Tokugawa shogun.

Gō Wakabayashi

Returning to NHK, he portrayed Saitō Yoshitatsu in the 1973 taiga drama Kunitori Monogatari. He has also appeared as Sanada Yukimura in Tokugawa Ieyasu (1983), and as the same warrior in Dokuganryū Masamune (1987).

Hayashi Tadasu

From 1866-1868, Hayashi studied in Great Britain at University College School and King's College London as one of fourteen young Japanese students (including Kikuchi Dairoku) sent by the Tokugawa government on the advice of the then British foreign minister Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby.

History of Kagoshima Prefecture

Toward the end of the Tokugawa Shogunate, namely the bakumatsu in which the Shimazu clan played an important role, there have been a chain of events such, bombardment of Kagoshima, also known as the Anglo-Satsuma War (Satsu-Ei Sensō), which took place on 15–17 August 1863 during the Late Tokugawa shogunate, Meiji Restoration(1868), abolition of the han system(1871) and Satsuma Rebellion(1877).

Ishikawa clan

Ishikawa Kazumasa, one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's senior retainers, was famous in his era for suddenly leaving Tokugawa service and pledging loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Japan Patent Office

In fact, Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, decreed in 1721 the "Ban on Novelty" (新規御法度 shinki gohatto), which was intended to prohibit everything novel, especially clothing of rich design.

Kan'ei-ji

Excepted Ieyasu and Iemitsu (buried in Nikko) and last shogun Yoshinobu (also known as Keiki, buried in nearby Yanaka Cemetery), all of the Tokugawa shoguns are buried either at Zōjō-ji or Kan'ei-ji, six at one and six at the other.

Katsunuma

Battle of Kōshū-Katsunuma, battle between pro-Imperial and Tokugawa shogunate forces during the Boshin War in Japan

Kōriki clan

Kōriki Kiyonaga (1530-1608) was a hereditary retainer of the Tokugawa clan, who served Tokugawa Ieyasu as bugyō of Sunpu and was made daimyō of Iwatsuki Domain (20,000 koku) in Musashi Province in 1590 after the Tokugawa were transferred to the Kantō region by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Kuroishi Domain

This resulted in an O-Ie Sōdō known as the Funahashi Sōdō of 1634, which was only suppressed with assistance by the Tokugawa shogunate and resulted in the exile of a number of Nobufusa’s supporters in 1636.

Laura Joh Rowland

Rowland takes some literary licence with known figures, creating fictionalised versions of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Emperor Higashiyama in "The Samurai's Wife", and Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu.

Mark Ravina

Numerous scholars, including Luke S. Roberts, Ronald Toby and John Whitney Hall have made reference to his work, engaging with it in their own pursuits of a reexamination of notions of statehood and national identity in the Tokugawa period.

Matsudaira Katamori

Though the Takasu domain was small, it had a high level of prestige due to its status as a branch family of the Tokugawa clan (through the gosanke house of Owari).

Matsudaira Sadanobu

However, following the Title Incident and the visit of Adam Laxman, Sadanobu's credibility and popularity in the Tokugawa bureaucracy became overtaxed, and true to the suggestion in his autobiography that "one should retire before discontent sets in," he resigned.

Nagasaki Chinatown

The Tokugawa government only allowed Nagasaki to stay open to the rest of the world, but Closed off the rest of Japan to prevent Western influences and the spread of Christianity.

Rokkaku Yoshisuke

"The Development of Sengoku Law" in Japan Before Tokugawa: Political Consolidation and Economic Growth, 1500 to 1650. John Whitney Hall, editor, Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Sagara Tomoyasu

After the resignation of the last shōgun the Meiji government took control over the medical institutions of the Tokugawa regime and assigned Sagara Chian and Iwasa Jun from Echizen to draft a programm for the new system of medical care and education.

Sakamoto Ryōma

Japan in Transition: from Tokugawa to Meiji. Princeton: Princeton University Press.

Samuel Beal

he printed for private circulation a pamphlet showing that the Tycoon of Yedo (i.e. Tokugawa Shogun of Edo), with whom foreigners had made treaties, was not the real Emperor of Japan.

Sunpu

Sunpu jōdai, officials of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period Japan

Takenaka Shigekata

Takenaka Shigekata was born in 1828 in the town of Iwate, in Mino Province, the son of Tokugawa retainer Takenaka Motoyuki.

Tanaka Shōsuke

Also among them was Father Muños, a Franciscan Father, sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu as a representative to negotiate the establishment of trade between Japan and Nueva España.

Tenpō

As the Tokugawa era drew to a close, a major reform was exerted called the Tenpō Reforms (1841-1843), primarily instituted by Mizuno Tadakuni, a dominant leader in the shogunate.

Tokugawa clan

The Tokugawa's clan crest, known in Japanese as a "mon", the "triple hollyhock" (although commonly, but mistakenly identified as "hollyhock", the "aoi" actually belongs to the birthwort family and translates as "wild ginger"—Asarum), has been a readily recognized icon in Japan, symbolizing in equal parts the Tokugawa clan and the last shogunate.

Tokugawa Iesato

Iesato is remembered for having recovered the political fortunes and reputation of the Tokugawa family, holding many senior government positions before his retirement, including a tenure as 6th head of the Japanese Red Cross Society, head of the Japan-America Society, and President of the national organizing committee for the 1940 Olympics.

Tokugawa Ietsugu

Tokugawa Ietsugu was born in 1709 in Edo, being the eldest son of Shogun Tokugawa Ienobu and concubine, Gekkōin.

Nonetheless, there were still collateral lineal branches descended from Ieyasu through one of his many children, and the new shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, was chosen from one of these lineal Tokugawa branches.

Tokugawa Ieyoshi

Tokugawa Ieyoshi is a minor character in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," in which he is murdered by his mother, using poisoned chrysanthemum tea.

Tokugawa Yoshinobu-ke

The wife of Prince Takamatsu-no-miya Nobuhito (third son of Emperor Taishō) was Tokugawa Kikuko, daughter of the second Prince of the Yoshinobu-ke, Yoshihisa.

Toyotomi Kunimatsu

Throughout this major event, Kunimatsu (who was merely seven years of age at the time) was captured by Tokugawa forces, later being executed by being beheaded.

Wakō, Saitama

Kawagoe Road was completed in 1633 (Kan'ei 10) when the third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu visited Kawagoe Senpa Toshogu (the Tokugawa family tomb).

World peace

The Japanese Shogun Tokugawa initiated the Edo Period, an isolationist period where Japan cut itself off from the world as a whole.

Yamaga Sokō

Hoshina, however, saw this attack as a potential challenge to Tokugawa authority itself, and Yamaga was subsequently exiled to stay with the Asano daimyo in the Akō domain (han), where his life intersects with the tale of the forty-seven ronin, which is later retold in the classic of Japanese literature Chūshingura.

Yoshimune

Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684–1751), the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate

Yoshitoshi Tokugawa

On 23 April 1911, Tokugawa set a Japanese record with a Blériot, flying 48 miles in 1 hour 9 minutes 30 seconds.

On 5 April 1911, Tokugawa piloted the inaugural flight at Japan's first permanent airfield in Tokorozawa.

Zhu Zhiyu

It was less than fifty years since the original Tokugawa Shogun, Ieyasu had been forced to bring the troops home from Korea after defeat at the hands of the Koreans and Ming.


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