Shoguns

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 58. Chapters: Ashikaga shoguns, Kamakura shoguns, Tokugawa shoguns, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa shogunate, Kamakura shogunate, Ashikaga shogunate, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Minamoto no Yoritomo, Sakanoue no Tamuramaro, Minamoto no Yoshinaka, Ashikaga Yoshitane, Tomb of Minamoto no Yoritomo, Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, Tokugawa Iemitsu, Ashikaga Yoshimasa, Ashikaga Yoshinori, Tokugawa Hidetada, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, Ashikaga Takauji, Tokugawa Ienobu, Tokugawa Ietsuna, Tokugawa Yoshimune, Minamoto no Yoriie, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, Kujo Yoritsune, Minamoto no Sanetomo, Tokugawa Ienari, Tokugawa Iemochi, Tokugawa Ieharu, Tokugawa Ietsugu, List of shoguns, Hojo Tokimune, Tokugawa Iesada, Ashikaga Yoshimochi, Tokugawa Ieshige, Ashikaga Yoshiakira, Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Tokugawa Ieyoshi, Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Ashikaga Yoshizumi, Chinjufu Shogun, Ashikaga Yoshihisa, Prince Moriyoshi, Kujo Yoritsugu, Ashikaga Yoshihide, Prince Morikuni, Hojo Sadatoki, Hojo Tokiyori, Narasaki Ryo, Prince Munetaka, Prince Koreyasu, Prince Hisaaki, Prince Narinaga, Otomo no Otomaro, Nabeshima Motoshige, Tenshudai donjon, Tenryuji-bune, Samurai-dokoro. Excerpt: Tokugawa Ieyasu , January 31, 1543 - June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan , which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but remained in power until his death in 1616. His given name is sometimes spelled Iyeyasu, according to the historical pronunciation of we. Ieyasu was posthumously enshrined at Nikko Tosho-gu with the name Tosho Daigongen ). Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa on the 26th day of the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Tenbun, according to the Japanese calendar. Originally named Matsudaira Takechiyo (¿¿ ¿¿¿), he was the son of Matsudaira Hirotada (¿¿ ¿¿), the daimyo of Mikawa of the Matsudaira clan, and Odainokata (¿¿¿¿), the daughter of a neighboring samurai lord Mizuno Tadamasa (¿¿ ¿¿). His mother and father were step-siblings. They were just 17 and 15 years old, respectively, when Ieyasu was born. Two years later, Odainokata was sent back to her family and the couple never lived together again. As both husband and wife remarried and both went on to have further children, Ieyasu in the end had 11 half-brothers and sisters. The Matsudaira family was split in 1550: one side wanted to be vassals of the Imagawa clan, while the other side preferred the Oda. As a result, much of Ieyasu's early years were spent in danger as wars with the Oda and Imagawa clans were fought. This family feud was the reason behind the murder of Hirotada's father (Takechiyo's grandfather), Matsudaira Kiyoyasu (¿¿ ¿¿). Unlike his father and the majority of his branch of the family, Ieyasu's father, Hirotada, favored the Imagawa clan. In 1548, when the Oda clan invaded Mikawa, Hirotada turned to Imagawa Yoshimoto, the head of the Imagawa clan, for help to repel the invaders. Yoshimoto agreed to help under the condition that Hirotada send his son Takechiyo to Sumpu as a host