Here’s what you need to know about Tokugawa Ieyasu and William Adams ... In recognition of his services, Adams was appointed ...

The term "samurai" comes from the Japanese word saburau ... Two years after Hideyoshi's death in 1598, a provincial leader, Tokugawa Ieyasu, defeated Hideyoshi's armies and took control of ...

When a daimyo died, these warriors became "ronin," masterless samurai. After Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun in 1603, samurai military services were no longer required, and many ronin wandered the ...

The family came into being in 1566 when Ieyasu changed his surname ... An exhibition titled “Legacy of the Tokugawa: The Glories and Treasures of the Last Samurai Dynasty” was held in the ...

William Adams Became The First Western Samurai After Adams proved himself to be incredibly resourceful to Tokugawa Ieyasu, he was appointed as a diplomatic and trade advisor of Japan and became ...

The samurai class, who were forbidden from engaging in profitable ... Along with growth in trade came growth in the use of money. Tokugawa Ieyasu and his immediate successors worked to systematize the ...

The drama series depicts the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616). Takechiyo (who later becomes Tokugawa Ieyasu) was born as the son of a poor and powerless daimyo.

After years of bitter strife, the aging samurai lord Tokugawa Ieyasu finally wrested power from Japan's many warring clans and unified them at the turn of the 17th century. Upon being proclaimed ...

Samurai are the subject of ceaseless fascination ... but it’s not long before you become embroiled in a battle between Tokugawa Ieyasu, supernatural monsters, and Edward Kelley, another ...

His clan used information and ingenuity to take on powerful foes, even the shogun Ieyasu himself. Yukimura, a warrior feared by his enemies. Masayuki defeated the Tokugawa forces in the siege of ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the lord of his clan, then lave a very special gift to Munenori; a samurai's pillbox, (a veritable work of art, with beautiful lacquered designs) which signifies that he is to be ...

Samurai governments administered the country in tandem with ... They are often referred to as the “three unifiers”—Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Nobunaga ruled a small domain ...