Tokugawa Ieyasu was not a young man when he became ... Taking pity, the mothers threw their children off the castle walls, or else they smashed them against the wall. I pray to God that I never ...

The outsiders, Tokugawa Ieyasu believed, could be of assistance ... leaving his wife and two children behind in England. The ship, the De Liefde, was one of five vessels recruited for the mission.

What Will You Do, Ieyasu? told the story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, who brought an end to 150 years of civil war known as the Sengoku Period and ...

This power shift ultimately set the stage for the Komaki-Nagakute campaign, where Hideyoshi clashed with Tokugawa Ieyasu. The series will continue to explore how these conflicts shaped Japan’s ...

The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born as the son of a poor and powerless daimyo.

Adams would spend the next 20 years in Japan, initially forbidden by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu to leave the country. Frederik Cryns’s “In the Service of the Shogun” describes in great scope and ...

Tadakatsu was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s main collaborators in his fight for the shogunate. The samurai, Japan’s celebrated lineage of warriors, emerged in the Heian period (794-1185), when the ...

UNESCO's executive board on Thursday added Buddhist scriptures kept at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple to its Memory of the World register, making it the ninth Japanese inscription. The series of some ...

NIKKO, Tochigi Prefecture--A statue of renowned feudal warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu in a seated position, one of the hidden treasures of Nikkozan Rinnoji temple here, has gone on public view for the ...