Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu

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🇯🇵Japan

Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The son of a minor daimyo, Ieyasu once lived as a hostage under daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto on behalf of his father.

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1543 – 1616
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Background

Born in
Okazaki Castle

Timeline

  • 1543

    Born

    Birth
  • 1616

    Died

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