Tokugawa Ieyasu was not a young man when he became shogun in 1603. His rise to power was long and slow, a journey that had begun when he was just 15 years old.

What do the edict(s) demonstrate about the Tokugawa government’s approach to international relations?(Active, economically-driven, thought out, hierarchy with East Asian relations given more ...

readings + video. The Bushido Code: An Overview. Bushido, which means "way of the warrior," refers to a complex set of Japanese values stressing honor and loyalty to country and family above all else.

The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.

JAPAN: Tokugawa. 2 minute read. TIME. November 10, 1930 12:00 AM GMT-5. A small round man with a large round face the color of old bronze landed in Manhattan last week from the 23-year-old Mauretania.

The Tokugawas wield no formal political power now. (Mr Tokugawa ran for a Diet seat with a liberal opposition party in 2019, but lost.) The 19th shogun’s main role is to shepherd the family legacy.

FUKUYAMA, Hiroshima -- Kindergarteners here on June 9 got to see a some 400-year-old hourglass said to have been sent from Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first ...