The series is based on the real-life establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. While ShÅ gun was originally intended to be a 10-part limited series based on the celebrated novel of the same name ...

The Edo Period marked the family’s heyday. After the Tokugawa Shogunate was toppled and imperial rule restored through the Meiji Restoration in 1868, the head of the clan was awarded the title ...

In 1609 Tokugawa Ieyasu rebuilt the castle, which remained a key power base of the shogunate until the 19th century. Jui-Chi Chan/Alamy After Nobunaga’s assassination in 1582, Hideyoshi avenged ...

After the collapse of the shogunate in the Meiji Restoration, however, its members had to adjust to life under a new government. Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the fifteenth and last shōgun, ruled for just ...

But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of stability, the need for them faded, forcing these warriors to find a new way of life. The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for ...

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in seventeenth-century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate. Show more In this ...

The year is 1830 or so: the waning days of the Tokugawa shogunate. And from the northwest ... A country road, two trees, daytime: hold onto your hats. And for something else: the story it tells ...