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.

Ieyasu’s Birthplace. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the future founder of the Edo shogunate, was born in 1543 in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province (now Aichi Prefecture).The Saigō clan is thought to have ...

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.

Hiroyuki Sanada as Lord Yoshii Toranaga, a fictionalized version of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, in FX's "Shogun" FX Productions When a powerful Japanese feudal lord with aspirations of seizing ...

What Will You Do, Ieyasu? told the story of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, who brought an end to 150 years of civil war known as the Sengoku Period and ...

Blood, they say, is thicker than water. But today’s selection of characters include several loyal to one man: Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born as the son of a poor and powerless daimyo ...

A new exhibition at the Royal Armouries museum in Leeds explores the extraordinary career of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who unified Japan and inspired a bestselling novel. By Louise Jury ...

Kings and Generals' animated historical series on the history of Japan continues with a new series on Sengoku Jidai, focusing on the early campaigns of Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The ...

When Toyotomi Hideyoshi died in 1598, his son and successor Hideyori was still a young boy. In the jockeying for position that followed, Tokugawa Ieyasu became increasingly powerful, but he would ...