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  Encyclopedia of Japanese History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Fought Tokugawa Ieyasu at Takatenjin in 1574 and at Nagashino in 1575.
Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, and is commonly known as one of the “three great leaders” of feudal Japan (the other two are Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi).
Tokugawa Ieyasu was named shōgun in 1603 and his family controlled the country through that office until the Meiji Restoration of 1867-68.
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 HighBeam Encyclopedia - Tokugawa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
TOKUGAWA [Tokugawa], family that held the shogunate (see shogun) and controlled Japan from 1603 to 1867.
After the Meiji restoration, the Tokugawa family was allowed to hold some land in Suruga, and when the new nobility was created its head was granted the rank of prince.
Jingu Kogo ema in Southwestern Japan: reflections and anticipations of the seikanron debate in the late Tokugawa and early Meiji period.
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 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Tokugawa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Tokugawa TOKUGAWA [Tokugawa], family that held the shogunate (see shogun) and controlled Japan from 1603 to 1867.
Ieyasu IEYASU [Ieyasu] (Ieyasu Tokugawa), 1542-1616, Japanese warrior and dictator.
This aristocratic warrior class arose during the 12th-century wars between the Taira and Minamoto clans and was consolidated in the Tokugawa period.
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 Tokugawa Art Museum, Nagoya - Aichi
After Tokugawa Ieyasu won the battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and became shogun in 1603, key family members of the Tokugawa clan were placed in strategic locations to ensure the continuity of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
Yoshinao's descendants became known as the Owari branch of the Tokugawa.
It is important to remember that the Tokugawa were warriors, and came to their position of power through a mixture of military, political and diplomatic prowess.
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 Takemata-Tokugawa
The Tokugawa's actual roots are obscure for while Ieyasu claimed descent from the Nitta and therefore the Seiwa-Minamoto, there seems to be little historical evidence of this.
The Tokugawa were increasingly pressured by the advances of the Takeda, and in 1572 Ieyasu lost Futamata Castle, then suffered a defeat at the Battle of Mikatagahara on 6 January 1573.
Yorifusa was considered the most clever of Tokugawa's last three sons, and a number of anecdotes involving the three of them and Ieyasu survive.
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 Mashita Nagamori - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nagamori took part in the Battle of Bunroku (in 1592) and the Battle of Keicho (in 1596).
After Hideyoshi died, in 1600, Nagamori took part in Ishida Mitsunari's force when he put up Mori Terumoto who was a five Tairo and raised their army to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
In 1615 at Siege of Osaka, Nagamori's son Mashita Moritsugu, who had served to Tokugawa Yoshinao, escaped and took part in Toyotomi Clan's force.
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 Welcome to Hosa Library, City of Nagoya information
The collection of books owned by the Owari Tokugawa family was named the "Hosa Library" around 1912 to indicate that the library preserved the books from the library of the Owari Clan from Nagoya Castle.
After the demise of Ieyasu, the books in the library were divided and transferred to his sons in the Shogunate family and those in the three branch families of the Tokugawa family.
Yoshinao Tokugawa, Lord of the Owari Clan, which headed the three branch families, was given 3,000 books, including many superior works such as those in the collection formerly owned by the Kanazawa Library, and these came to constitute the core of the collection of the library of the Owari Clan.
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 TOKUGAWA
HIH Prince Tokugawa Ieyasu, 1st Shogun 1603/1605, born 1543 in Okazaki, son of HIH Prince Matsudaira Hirotada and Mizuno Odai no Kata, married (amongst others), (a) Imagawa, died 1579, (b) 1586, sister of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and had issue.
HIH Prince Tokugawa Yoshinobu, 15th Shogun 1866/1867, born 28th October 1837 in Mito, (born as Prince Matsudaira Keiki, adopted by Prince Hitotsubashi in 1841), married and had issue.
HIH Princess Tokugawa Kikuko, born 26th December 1911 in Tokyo, married 4th February 1930 in Tokyo, HIH Prince Takamatsu Nobuhito, born 3rd January 1905 in Tokyo, younger son of HIM Emperor TAISHO, 123rd Emperor of Japan, died sp 3rd February 1987.
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 Daimyo flags, 15th - 17th century (Japan)
At both battles, the West was defeated by the East led by Tokugawa Ieyasu who became Shogun for the victory and his Tokugawa family ruled Japan without serious civil war till 1868 when Meiji Emperor restored political power from Shogun.
In the Tokugawa era about 250 years daimyo flags were not often used and developed due to lack of chance (little war).
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) the Shogun warrior chieftain who outwitting many of his major contemporaries and outliving and out-procreating the rest, survived Japan's late 16th century wars of unification with victories at the battles of Sekigahara (1600) and Osaka (1614).
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 Asia Finest Discussion Forum > Tokugawa Art Museum
Nagoya was the capital of the Owari clan, who enjoyed close family and political ties with the ruling shoguns after Edo shogunate founder Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616) appointed his ninth son, Yoshinao (1600-50), as lord of Owari.
The Tokugawa Art Museum is one of only two facilities to possess portions of the 12th-century picture scrolls depicting the world of The Tale of Genji.
The Tokugawa Art Museum is a 10-minute walk from the South Exit of Ozone Station on the JR Chuo Honsen line.
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 Tokugawa Shogunate
Note on Houses: After founding the Tokugawa shôgunate, Ieyasu established three houses that would offer heirs in the event that the main Tokugawa line was unable to furnish one.
The Hitotsubashi and Tayasu were founded by sons of Tokugawa Yoshimune; the Shimizu family was founded by Tokugawa Shigeyoshi, a son of shôgun Ieshige.
The Owari Tokugawa, established by Ieyasu's 7th son, Yoshinao, was never called upon to provide an heir to the shôgunate.
www.samurai-archives.com /tokugawa.html   (159 words)

  
 YAGYU SHINKAGE RYU   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
This pupil is in direct line from Tokugawa Yoshinao, the son of the Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa of the beginning of Edo era, 400 years ago!.
During the meeting between Mataémon and future Shogun Tokugawa, it is very much possible that the Shogun asked Mataémon to follow him to Edo (Tokyo) to organize his Secret Police and his service of counterespionage in the view of the relations that Mataémon had kept with all the families of Ninjas.
In 1615, The chief of the clan of Owari (near Nagoya) is presented to the Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, and Ieyasu makes him the master of weapons of the clan of Bishu and Tokugawa Yoshinao.
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 Cultural Path Futaba Museum—Former Residence of Sadayakko Kawakami | Tokugawa Art Museum
The Tokugawa Art Museum was founded in 1935 on a donation by Marquis Yoshichika Tokugawa.
Filled with innumerable treasures passed down from generation to generation in the Tokugawa family, the foremost of the three main feudal clans of Japan that ruled over massive tracts of the country, the Tokugawa Art Museum's exhibitions of the "tools of the daimyo" for public viewing were like nothing that had ever been seen before.
Indeed, the Tokugawa Art Museum, the design of which is, incidentally, in the "imperial crown" style, boasts unparalleled variety of works, quality and state of preservation.
www.futabakan.city.nagoya.jp /english/data/ef006.html   (316 words)

  
 Encyclopedia of Shinto - Home : Hayashi_Razan : Hayashi Razan
Born in 1583 in Kyoto as the eldest son of Hayashi Nobutoki, Hayashi Razan was the founder of the Hayashi dynasty of Neo-Confucianists in official service to the Tokugawa shogunate.
Hayashi served as advisor and confidante to the first four Tokugawa shoguns (Ieyasu, Hidetada, Iemitsu, and Ietsugu), and was responsible for official bureaucratic and scholarly endeavors, including administration of written documents, inscribing law documents and other official papers, and editing genealogies and works on national history.
Furthermore, with support from Owari Domain lord Tokugawa Yoshinao, Hayashi built a mausoleum dedicated to the worship of Confucius (in Chinese known as kongzimiao, in Japanese as kōshibyō) at the Shinobugaoka Academy in the Ueno district of Edo, allowing for the performance of sekiten Confucian ritual and practice.
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 Principle Japanese Daimyo to 1868
The daimyo were divided into several categories: fudai-daimyo hereditary vassals; tozama-daimyo ('outside' daimyo) allies of the bakufu; and shimpan-daimyo kinsmen of the Tokugawa family.
Before the Muromachi period, however, the title myoden, was more frequently used to designate owners of large estates, who were divided into kokushu (governing several provinces), ryoshu (governing a relatively small territory), and joshu (governors of castles).
The former daimyo were then given pensions and forced to live in Tokyo.
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 Tokugawa Yoshinao - founder of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa family
Tokugawa Yoshinao - founder of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa family
Tokugawa Yoshinao (1600 - 50) is Tokugawa Ieyasu's 7th son and founder of the Owari branch of the Tokugawa family.
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This group became known as the Owari Seki school.
Famous for being the birthplace of Oda Nobunaga, Owari became the fief of Tokugawa Yoshinao in 1607.
The capital of the province was the castle town of Nagoya which attracted many swordsmiths.
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 Magnum Photos: JAPAN. Nagoya. 1961. Yoshinao TOKUGAWA, a descendent of a shogun, outside of his ancestral castle. ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Yoshinao TOKUGAWA, a descendent of a shogun, outside of his ancestral castle.
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