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Shogun: the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu: Ian Bottomley introduces an exhibition which reflects a special moment in Anglo-Japanese relations in the 17th century, echoed today by a unique loan arrangement between the Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds and the Nikko Toshogu Shrine, resting place of the first significant Shogun.
; ...summer to celebrate the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Shogun of Japan in the early years...Hidetada, but it was his father, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who signed the treaty document and it...Toshogu Shrine, the burial place of Tokugawa Ieyasu. The Royal Armouries Museum and Nikko...
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Edo Rococo: this year is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and the start, in this periodization [1], of the Edo period (1603-1867). In the third article of his series tracing vestiges of the epoch, David Capel picks up the Edo trail in Nikko.(Echoes Of Edo (III))
; FOUNDER of the eponymous shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) was a man of extraordinary...grasping supreme power. Such indeed was Ieyasu's ambition that he was not going to let...death interfere with his career plans, Ieyasu decided that, all things considered, he...
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The grandest Castle: this year is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and the start, in this periodization [1], of the Edo period (1603-1867). In the fourth article of his series tracing vestiges of the epoch, David Capel visits Edo Castle.(Echoes Of Edo (IV))
; ...existence to a single individual. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the man who gave his name to a shogunate...for over a century. Some 130 years after Ieyasu plucked Edo out of obscurity, that cluster...Along with draining the swamp, one of Ieyasu's first tasks was that of providing himself...
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 "Japan Times (Tokyo, Japan)")
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Delivering men from evil.
; ...the powerful warrior leader Tokugawa Ieyasu declared his wish to be enshrined in Nikko...in Nikko's shrines and temples. After Ieyasu, who came out on top in Japan's late-16th-centu...Japan. Though it may seem strange that Ieyasu, from present-day Shizuoka Prefecture...
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The road less traveled: this year is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and the start, in this periodization [1], of the Edo period (1603-1867). Marking the occasion, David Capel this month launches a series of articles tracing vestiqes of the epoch. He begins by following the Nakasendo to Magome.(Echoes Of Edo)
; ...savvy, the warrior chieftain Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) found himself, at the turn...title of shogun in 1603 by the emperor, Ieyasu was thereafter to devote considerable...of the highways played a vital role in Ieyasu's strategy. The country's five most important...
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Nikko's sacred shrines T
; ...be the resting place for the soul of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542-1616), the powerful warrior and first Shogun...a sacred place following the death of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1616. The shrine, where Ieyasu's ashes lie and his soul is preserved, is one...
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Jacobeans in Japan Rowdy Englishmen are not a novelty to the Japanese, says Anthony Thwaite
; ...drunken punch-ups in the streets; and though Ieyasu, the Shogun, had given Richard Cocks...had acquired enough Japanese to act as Ieyasu's interpreter and a go-between trusted...but soon extended to diplomacy, helping Ieyasu understand the outside world. Giles Milton...
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(book reviews)
; ...political stability in Japan. The regime rounded by Tokugawa Ieyasu attained hegemony in 1600, bringing to a close a century and...emphasizes the role of Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu - the three hegemons who successively unified and pacified Japan...
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Fantastic Voyager
; ...which was given to him by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu for the Englishman's service as adviser...crew was captured by a clan friendly to Ieyasu just a few months before the Battle of...was sent to Osaka Castle, where he met Ieyasu himself, the shogun-to-be whose dynasty...
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 "The Mirror (London, England)")
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Ye Olde English Samurai; THE TRUE STORY OF A KENT SAILOR WHO BECAME A JAPANESE WARLORD.(News)
; ...luck held out again. The warlord Tokugawa Ieyasu had heard of the arrival of the Liefde...sick and dishevelled were delivered to Ieyasu - the Shogun - the Japanese emporer's...immediately. Adams was a trained shipbuilder and Ieyasu craved Western ships to prop up his own...
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