Tokugawa Ieyasu
- In this Japanese name, the family name is Tokugawa.
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Early life
At birth, his name was Matsudaira Takechiyo.[1]
In 1562, he changed his name to Matsudaira Motoyasu. The second syllable -- -yasu -- comes from the name of his grandfather Kiyoyasu.[2] A few months later, he changed his first name to the one by which he is known today. The first syllable -- Ie- -- comes from the last part of the name of Minamoto Yoshile, who was a famous ancestor.[3] He received permission from the emperor to change his family name from Matsudaira to Tokugawa.[4]
Shogun
Ieyasu was the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.[1]
Tokugawa Ieyasu Media
Okazaki Castle, the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Ukiyo-e of Tokugawa Ieyasu
An ukiyo-e print depicting the Battle of Batogahara. In his early days as daimyo of Mikawa, Ieyasu had difficult relations with the Jōdō Shinshū temples which escalated in 1563–1564.
The kabuto (helmet) of Tokugawa Ieyasu
Armor of Tokugawa Ieyasu at Kunōzan Tōshō-gū
An ukiyo-e by Yoshitoshi depicting the scene when Ieyasu had an audience with Emperor Go-Yōzei
Edo Castle from a 17th-century painting
Letter from King James VI of Scotland and I of England and Ireland to ogosho Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1613
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Tokugawa Ieyasu" in Japan Encyclopedia, pp. 977-978.
- ↑ Sadler, Arthur Lindsay. (2010). The Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, p. 51.
- ↑ Sadler, p. 70.
- ↑ Janse, Marius B. (2002). The Making of Modern Japan, p. 29.