A new adaptation offers a fresh take on James Clavell’s 1975 novel, which fictionalizes the stories of English sailor William Adams, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and Japanese noblewoman Hosokawa Gracia ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in Mikawa Province (now Aichi Prefecture) in 1543. While still a young boy, the future founder of the Tokugawa shogunate was sent as a hostage first to the Oda family in ...

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Tokugawa Ieyasu, the future founder of the Edo shogunate, was born in 1543 in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province (now Aichi Prefecture). The Saigō clan is thought to have built initial fortifications ...

He was called Lord Toranaga in James Clavell's book for the sake of artistic licence; it permitted a love interest for which there was no documentary proof. But the real Shogun who inspired the ...

Ruthlessness, resolve, and luck all brought Tokugawa Ieyasu to power in 1603 as he unified Japan after centuries of samurai strife and civil war. Guardian statues can be seen at the Tosho-gu shrine ...