Online dictionary of history and traditions in Japan: Tokugawa Ieyasu

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Tokugawa Ieyasu

徳川家康松平家康
alternative words: Ieyasu Tokugawa, Ieyasu
keywords: famous person , shogun , war lord
related topics: Sengoku period , Oda Nobunaga , Toyotomi Hideyoshi , Ishida Mitsunari , Battle of Sekigahara , Shogun , Edo shogunate , Tokugawashi
related web sites: http://member.nifty.ne.jp/gongen/ieyasu/ , http://www.shibuyam.com
explanation: Born in the family of a local war lord in 1542 in the west of Aichi Prefecture. Sandwiched between 2 powerful clans, Imagawa in the east and Oda in the west, he spent his youth as a hostage of those families. But with a great patience, he had successfully enlarge his feud. After his allied, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, Ieyasu entered in a conflict with Hideyoshi's deputy, Ishida Mitsunari and beaten him in the great battle of Sekigahara in 1600. He became shogun in 1603 and died in 1616.