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1 day ago · Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
Jun 24, 2024 · From as early as 1879 and continuing through most of the first four decades of the 1900s influential Japanese statesmen such as Prince Iesato Tokugawa (1863–1940) and Baron Eiichi Shibusawa (1840–1931) led a major Japanese domestic and international movement advocating goodwill and mutual respect with the United States.
5 days ago · This portrait of Tokugawa Iemasa, Japanese diplomat and onetime lover of Ella Grainger, is a fine print with rich, velvety dark tones, carefully modulated skin tones and even chemically bleached highlights.
4 days ago · Tokugawa Ieyasu. Photo Credit: Wikimedia Commons. Born Matsudaira Takechiyo in 1542, this great samurai was the son of the lord of Mikawa province. He came of age in a Japan wracked with civil war and bloody feuds between territorial lords. At four years old, Ieyasu was sent as a hostage to the Imagawa clan to secure an alliance.
Jun 13, 2024 · Japanese art - Tokugawa, Edo, Ukiyo-e: At the death of the Momoyama leader Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1598, his five-year-old son, Hideyori, inherited nominal rule, but true power was held by Hideyoshi’s counselors, among whom Tokugawa Ieyasu was the most prominent.
20 hours ago · Japan - The Tokugawa status system: Thus, the bakuhan system was firmly solidified by the second half of the 17th century. The establishment of a strict class structure of warriors, farmers, artisans, and merchants (shi-nō-kō-shō) represents the final consummation of the system.
Jun 19, 2024 · Tokugawa period (1603–1867), the final period of traditional Japan, a time of peace, stability, and growth under the shogunate founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu achieved hegemony over the entire country by balancing the power of potentially hostile domains with strategically placed allies and collateral houses.
