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.

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 ...

William Adams became an adviser to the Tokugawa ruler on trade, ... Adams would spend the next 20 years in Japan, initially forbidden by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu to leave the country.

Lord Yoshii Toranaga is based on the real-life shÅ gun Tokugawa Iyeasu, who is considered one of the three great unifiers of Japan. Tokugawa Ieyasu became shÅ gun in 1603, right around the time ...

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 ...

Portrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu by Nagashima Mōsai. (Courtesy National Diet Library) Mitsunari’s Miscalculation. The fateful Battle of Sekigahara took place the next day, on October 21, 1600.

Tadakatsu was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu’s main collaborators in his fight for the shogunate. Science Photo Library. By Antonio Míguez. May 9, 2025.

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 ...

With victory at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, Tokugawa Ieyasu set the stage for his establishment of a shogunate. In the fighting’s aftermath, Ieyasu doled out punishments and rewards, with ...