People can visit the flood protection facility in Kasukabe, which safeguards Tokyo and has shafts large enough to fit the ...

Tadakatsu was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s main collaborators in his fight for the shogunate. The samurai, Japan’s celebrated lineage of warriors, emerged in the Heian period (794-1185), when the ...

A procession of famous historical figures passing through was also reenacted. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who won the Battle of Sekigahara, Kazunomiya, who married a shogun, and others appeared. Japanese ...

While the characters are both fictional, however, they’re heavily inspired by real-life figures Tokugawa Ieyasu and William Adams, so season two will have some grounding outside of total fan ...

UNESCO's executive board on Thursday added Buddhist scriptures kept at Tokyo's Zojoji Temple to its Memory of the World register, making it the ninth Japanese inscription. The series of some ...

The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Edo era, and donated to the temple. Meanwhile, a set of 1,532 photographs and two films ...

Nikko Toshogu Shrine enshrines the most famous samurai leader Tokugawa Ieyasu. This is a view of the shrine’s Yomeimon Gate. Photograph by Jon Arnold Images Ltd, Alamy Stock Photo In Kanagawa ...

This quest takes place in Uji Tawara in the centre of the Little Leaf Glad sub-region in the south of Yamashiro and involves defending Tokugawa Ieyasu against grunts from Mitsuhide’s clan.

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding factions, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the island nation’s first shogun, and in the early 17th century he consolidated his political control in Edo ...

Following the decisive battle of Sekigahara, during which Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated the Toyotomi ... of place in an art gallery – though these images are often more drenched in blood than what ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu was not a young man when he ... His grandson Iemitsu built the Asakusa Shrine within the same complex. AWL Images Ieyasu also reduced the possibility of rebellion by preventing ...

This power shift ultimately set the stage for the Komaki-Nagakute campaign, where Hideyoshi clashed with Tokugawa Ieyasu. The series will continue to explore how these conflicts shaped Japan’s ...