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Ieyasu Tokugawa

Tokugawa Ieyasu
徳川家康
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1st Tokugawa shogun
In office
1603–1605
Monarch Go-Yōzei
Preceded by Sengoku period
Succeeded by Shogun:
Tokugawa Hidetada
Personal details
Born (1543-01-31)January 31, 1543
Okazaki Castle, Mikawa
Died June 1, 1616(1616-06-01) (aged 73)
Sunpu, Japan
Spouse(s) Lady Tsukiyama
Asahi no kata
Relations Father:
Matsudaira Hirotada
Mother:
Odai-no-kata
Children Legitimate:
Matsudaira Nobuyasu
Kame-hime
Illegitimate:
Yūki Hideyasu
Toku-hime
Tokugawa Hidetada
Matsudaira Tadayoshi
Takeda Nobuyoshi
Matsudaira Tadateru
Matsudaira Matsuchiyo
Matsudaira Senchiyo
Tokugawa Yoshinao
Tokugawa Yorinobu
Tokugawa Yorifusa
Furihime
Matsuhime
Ichihime
Others

Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川 家康?, 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 he. Ieyasu was posthumously enshrined at Nikkō Tōshō-gū with the name Tōshō Daigongen (東照大権現?). He was one of the three unifiers of Japan, along with his Former Lord Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa on the 26th day of the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Tenbun, according to the Japanese calendar. Originally named Matsudaira Takechiyo (松平 竹千代), he was the son of Matsudaira Hirotada (松平 広忠), the daimyō of Mikawa of the Matsudaira clan, and Odai-no-kata (於大の方, Lady Odai), the daughter of a neighbouring samurai lord, Mizuno Tadamasa (水野 忠政). His mother and father were step-siblings. They were just 17 and 15 years old, respectively, when Ieyasu was born. Two years later, Odai-no-kata was sent back to her family and the couple never lived together again. As both husband and wife remarried and both went on to have further children, Ieyasu in the end had 11 half-brothers and sisters.


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