Adapting to peace Once the Tokugawa regime was established after the conquest of Ōsaka Castle in 1615, Japan enjoyed a period of peace, disturbed only by a few peasant revolts. The last major ...

Ruthlessness, resolve, and luck all brought Tokugawa Ieyasu to power in 1603 as he unified Japan after centuries of samurai strife and civil war. Guardian statues can be seen at the Tosho-gu ...

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Ogata will voice a young man named Kikuchiyo, who also happens to be the shogun Tokugawa Iemochi. You can see the character’s design below. It’s 1863, the twilight of the shogunate, and Japan is on ...

It was the perfect destination for fleeing Ronin and Wokou (aka pirates), who were escaping the newly appointed Tokugawa shogunate. Since the trailer released I’ve been poring over the details ...

The Tokugawa Art Museum, located in the city of Nagoya, possesses a vast number of historic treasures that once belonged to the Owari Tokugawa family. This was the most senior of the three ...

Hideki Takeuchi’s clunkily titled “What If Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa Was to Become the Prime Minister” indulges in some wishful thinking on that front. Rewinding the clock to 2020, it imagines ...

It is some time around 1750 during the Edo period, the era from 1603 to 1868 ruled by the Tokugawa shoguns. You are surrounded by a bustle of chattering locals twirling their umbrellas ...

William Adams lived the rest of his life in Japan, advising Lord Tokugawa and facilitating trade between the Protestant nations and Japan. He ended up building two ships for the shogun ...

The first shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu (Toronaga), prevailed, ending Japan’s Sengoku or Warring States Period, unifying the country and establishing the Tokugawa Shogunate that ruled Japan for more ...

Yoshinobu Tokugawa is one of the character allies you can meet and establish a bond with in Rise of the Ronin. The fifteenth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, he is quick-witted and strategic ...

“I showed unto [Tokugawa Ieyasu] the name of our country, and that our land long sought out the East Indies, and desired friendship with all kings and potentates in way of merchandise, having in ...