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.

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.

Tokugawa Ieyasu founded a dynasty that ruled Japan for more than 200 years, but he had to wait to take his chance to become shōgun and reshape the country in his image.

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 ...