Ruler · Early modern period · Japan

Tokugawa Ieyasu

1543–1616

Founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, shogun from 1603, born in 1543 and dead in 1616. His victory at Sekigahara in 1600 ended a century of civil war in Japan. The shogunate he built ruled Japan in peace for more than two hundred and fifty years.

Facts

Born: 1543, Okazaki.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tokugawa Ieyasu
Died: 1616.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tokugawa Ieyasu
Reign: Shogun 1603 to 1605; effective ruler to 1616.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tokugawa Ieyasu
Realm: Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tokugawa Ieyasu
Known for: Sekigahara (1600) and the founding of the Tokugawa peace.; Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Tokugawa Ieyasu

Images

Tokugawa Ieyasu in court dress (Wikimedia Commons)

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