Tokugawa Ieyasu was not a young man when he ... His grandson Iemitsu built the Asakusa Shrine within the same complex. AWL Images Ieyasu also reduced the possibility of rebellion by preventing ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the future founder of the Edo shogunate ... The keep was completed two years later, although details are sparse, and pictures of the time are unreliable. Ieyasu based himself ...

After years of bitter strife, the aging samurai lord Tokugawa Ieyasu finally wrested power from Japan's many warring clans and unified them at the turn of the 17th century. Upon being proclaimed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding factions, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the island nation’s first shogun, and in the early 17th century he consolidated his political control in Edo ...