I'm not an expert, but I think the glowing guardian spirits are a product of creative license.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's also already available on PS5 (PlayStation 5). Set in Japan in 1863, after three centuries of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s reign, the Black Ships of the West descend upon the nation’s borders ...

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 ...

Having evolved over many centuries, these warrior values began to become more standardized as a code during the Tokugawa Shogunate, an era of samurai rule in Japan that began at the turn of the ...

During this time the country was ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago features over 30 of Tōshūsai Sharaku’s rarely shown ukiyo-e prints exemplifying the ...

Japan, 1863. After three centuries of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s reign, the Black Ships of the West descend upon the nation’s borders and the country falls into a state of turmoil. Amidst the ...

During that grim period of the Tokugawa shogunate, Catholic priests and indigenous Kirishitan converts who refused to apostatize, who could not bring themselves to tread impiously on an image of ...

The war against the Tokugawa Shogunate ended years ago. But there are some who are not happy with the outcome. Takimi Shigure watched his friends and family get cut down in the name of freedom and ...