Ruthlessness, resolve, and luck all brought Tokugawa Ieyasu to power in 1603 as he unified Japan after centuries of samurai strife and civil war. Guardian statues can be seen at the Tosho-gu ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

On April 20, 1598, Japan’s ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi held a cherry blossom party at the Kyoto temple Daigoji. He invited more than 1,300 women to this spectacular event, including his principal ...

A new adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell’s 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu became shÅ gun in 1603, right around the time that the Hulu/FX series takes place. Tokugawa Ieyasu was a member of the Matsudaira clan and claimed to be a descendant of the Seiwa ...

The family came into being in 1566 when Ieyasu changed his surname to Tokugawa from Matsudaira. The Edo Period marked the family’s heyday. After the Tokugawa Shogunate was toppled and imperial ...

In July 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu headed a huge army on the way ... but rose through his glorious achievements in war. Masanori was meant to move first, so Naomasa’s action was a violation of ...

Today we get to indeed see the mighty Tokugawa Ieyasu, who is the man who put an end to Japan’s Sengoku era, uniting the daimyo under his rule as Shogun and crushing all who opposed him ...

Hideki Takeuchi’s clunkily titled “What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister” indulges in some wishful thinking on that front. Rewinding the clock to 2020, it imagines ...

Based on the armor of the real-life military leader Tokugawa Ieyasu, which is housed at the Nikko Toshogu shrine in Japan, the new Master Grade Musha Gunpla is more than just a model kit.