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The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars of the Sengoku period following the collapse of the Ashikaga shogunate. Ieyasu became the shōgun , and the Tokugawa clan governed Japan from Edo Castle in the eastern city of Edo ( Tokyo ) along with the daimyō lords of ...
The Edo period (江戸時代, Edo jidai), also known as the Tokugawa period (徳川時代, Tokugawa jidai), is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 [1] in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional daimyo, or feudal lords.
Ienobu died and was succeeded by his five-year-old son, Tokugawa Ietsugu, under the regency of the shōgun ' s adviser Arai Hakuseki. 1716: 19 June: Ietsugu died. Tokugawa Yoshimune, a great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu, became shōgun. July: The Kyōhō Reforms aimed for monetization of economy and broader import of European knowledge have ...
A Japanese/Cyrillic 1789 map of Japan showing provincial borders and the castle towns of han and major shogunate castles/cities Map of Japan, 1855, with provinces. Map of Japan, 1871, with provinces. The list of han or domains in the Tokugawa period (1603–1868) changed from time to time during the Edo period.
Tokugawa Hidetada (1579–1632) 1605 de jure 1623 de facto 1632 3 Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604–1651) 1623 1651 4 Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641–1680) 1651 1680 5 Tokugawa Tsunayoshi (1646–1709) 1680 1709 6 Tokugawa Ienobu (1662–1712) 1709 1712 7 Tokugawa Ietsugu (1709–1716) 1713 1716 8 Tokugawa Yoshimune (1684–1751) 1716 de jure 1745 de facto ...
Edo grew to become one of the largest cities in the world under the Tokugawa. After the Meiji Restoration in 1868 the Meiji government renamed Edo to Tokyo (東 京, "Eastern Capital") and relocated the Emperor from the historic capital of Kyoto to the city. The era of Tokugawa rule in Japan from 1603 to 1868 is known as the Edo period.
Bakumatsu (幕末, ' End of the bakufu ') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended.Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military pressure, Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy known as sakoku and changed from a feudal Tokugawa shogunate to the modern empire of the Meiji government.
Tokugawa Yoshinobu launched a military campaign to seize the emperor's court in Kyoto. ... Map of Japanese conquests from 1937 to 1942. ... Timeline (1926–1947) ...