tokugawa|tokugawas in English

noun

Japanese family name; powerful family in Japan that ruled as shoguns from 1603 to 1868; member of this Tokugawa family; era in Japan from 1603 to 1868 under the rule of Tokugawa shoguns

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1. Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616), founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, also claimed descent from this lineage.

2. Together with Kamenosuke (who took the name Tokugawa Iesato), Yoshinobu moved to Shizuoka, the place to which Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of Tokugawa shogunate, had also retired, centuries earlier.

3. Their Home City is Edo and their leader is Tokugawa Ieyasu.

4. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, well aware of the extinction of the Minamoto line in 1219, had realized that his direct descendants might die out, leaving the Tokugawa family at risk of extinction.

5. He held off the initial Tokugawa attacks, but was forced to withdraw as the main body of the Tokugawa army, numbering some 10,000 warriors with 2,000 additional ashigaru, arrived.

6. After 265 years, the Pax Tokugawa came to an end.

7. 12 After lemochi died, Yoshinobu Hitotsubashi became the new Tokugawa shogun.

8. In 1614 Tokugawa attacked Toyotomi in the winter, starting the Siege of Osaka.

9. The record provides insight into the social life in the Tokugawa period.

10. The shōgun also administered the most powerful han, the hereditary fief of the House of Tokugawa.

11. He was named one of Lord Tokugawa' s advance guard...... and served well

12. Members of the Tokugawa clan intermarried with prominent daimyo and the Imperial family.

13. Not withstanding the arbitrary demands of the Tokugawa, domains enjoyed a certain amount of autonomy.

14. The area was tenryō territory ruled by a daikan appointed directly by the Tokugawa shogunate.

15. It occurred as the troops of the Tokugawa shogunate were retreating north towards Nikkō and Aizu.

16. In contrast, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whom Hideyoshi had transferred to the Kanto region, held 2.5 million koku.

17. Tokugawa Ieyasu took a number of fishermen from Tsukuda, Osaka to Edo to provide fish for the castle in 1590.

18. Those loyal to the Tokugawa retreated to northern Honshū and later to Hokkaidō, where they founded the Ezo republic.

19. 1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.

20. Tokugawa Ieyasu gave Masamune permission to build a new castle in Aobayama after the Battle of Sekigahara.

21. In the Tokugawa period agriculture served as the cornerstone both of the economy and of society as a whole.

22. Returning to Satsuma, Kuroda became an active member of the Satsuma-Chōshū joint effort to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate.

23. However, once the treaty was agreed, Tokugawa filled the castle's outer moats with sand so his troops could walk across.

24. At the time of the Meiji Restoration, he helped maintain order in Nagasaki after the collapse of the Tokugawa bakufu.

25. Confucian studies had long been kept active in Japan by Buddhist clerics, but during the Tokugawa period, Confucianism emerged from Buddhist religious control.