Tokugawa Ieyasu
1543–1616 · first Edo shogun · Japan
Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The son of a minor daimyo, Ieyasu once lived as a hostage under daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto on behalf of his father. He later succeeded as daimyo after his father's death, serving as ally, vassal, and general of the Oda clan, and building up his strength under Oda Nobunaga.
Read more on WikipediaThe world around them · Kyoto, 1590s
- Who governs
- Hideyoshi rules through the great lords. Peasants were disarmed in the sword hunt of 1588.
- Everyday life
- Farmers are tied to their fields by the land survey, and Kyoto is enclosed by new earthen walls.
- Arts and ideas
- Gold-leaf screens by the Kanō painters, and the quiet, plain tea of Rikyū.
- Meanwhile
- In England, Elizabeth I has just beaten the Armada. In 1592 Hideyoshi sends his armies into Korea.
Their life in their time
- 1543
- 157330 years old
- 158239 years oldThe Honnō-ji incident
- 159148 years oldSen no Rikyū is ordered to die
- 160057 years oldBattle of Sekigaharavictor
- 160360 years old
- 161673 years oldDies
Connected to
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Oda Nobunaga · allies
1562 Ieyasu and Nobunaga were allies for twenty years, from 1562 until Nobunaga's death in 1582.
Source: wikipedia:Tokugawa_Ieyasu - TH
Toyotomi Hideyoshi · rivals
1584 Ieyasu fought Hideyoshi in 1584, then served him until Hideyoshi's death in 1598, after which he took power.
Source: wikipedia:Tokugawa_Ieyasu
