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4 unusual facts about Tokugawa Ieyasu


Jana Ueekata

They were brought to Kagoshima, the capital of Satsuma Domain, and then to Sunpu, where they met with the retired former shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, and were forced to sign a number of vows of fealty and allegiance to the Shimazu clan lords of Satsuma.

Matsudaira Ietada

Matsudaira Ietada (Fukōzu), 1555-1600, samurai who adopted Matsudaira Tadayoshi, son of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Lady Saigo

Tokugawa

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

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.


Inoue clan

A cadet branch of the Inoue clan was established in 1649 at Takaoka Domain, Shimosa Province by Inoue Masashige (1585-1661), a retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu and fourth son of Inoue Kiyohide.

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.

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.

Mizuno clan

Lady Odai, Tokugawa Ieyasu's mother, was the daughter of a Mizuno; specifically, Mizuno Tadamasa of Kariya Castle.

Ōmura Domain

His son, Ōmura Yoshiaki (1568–1615) sided with Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara, but was forced to give up his domains to his son, Ōmura Sumiyori (d. 1619).

Ōtani University

The shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu founded Higashi Hongan-ji in 1602 by splitting it from Nishi Hongan-ji in order to diminish the power of the Shin sect of Buddhism.

Yamauchi clan

The province was gifted to the family in 1600 after Yamauchi Kazutoyo led troops under Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara.


see also

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).

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.