The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

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 ...

While still a young boy, the future founder of the Tokugawa shogunate was sent as a hostage first to the Oda family in neighboring Owari Province, and then to the daimyō Imagawa Yoshimoto of ...

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 ...

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 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 Tokugawa Shogunate -- instituted by Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1603 -- collapsed prior to the Meiji Restoration in 1868, but the long history of the Tokugawa families did not end with their political ...