How to Pronounce Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Jan 31, 1542 Okazaki Castle, Aichi Prefecture, Japan Died on 01 Jun 1616 (aged 74)
the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan
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About Tokugawa Ieyasu
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (????, January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which effectively ruled Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
- Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, and abdicated from office in 1605, but remained in power until his death in 1616.
- His given name is sometimes spelled Iyeyasu, according to the historical pronunciation of the kana character he.
- Ieyasu was posthumously enshrined at Nikko Tosho-gu with the name Tosho Daigongen (?????).
- He was one of the three unifiers of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
