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Tokugawa Ieyasu徳川家康 松平家康alternative words: Ieyasu Tokugawa, Ieyasu keywords: famous person , shogun , war lord related topics: Sengoku period , Oda Nobunaga , Toyotomi Hideyoshi , Ishida Mitsunari , Battle of Sekigahara , Shogun , Edo shogunate , Tokugawashi related web sites: http://member.nifty.ne.jp/gongen/ieyasu/ , http://www.shibuyam.com explanation: Born in the family of a local war lord in 1542 in the west of Aichi Prefecture. Sandwiched between 2 powerful clans, Imagawa in the east and Oda in the west, he spent his youth as a hostage of those families. But with a great patience, he had successfully enlarge his feud. After his allied, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, Ieyasu entered in a conflict with Hideyoshi's deputy, Ishida Mitsunari and beaten him in the great battle of Sekigahara in 1600. He became shogun in 1603 and died in 1616. Tokugawa Yoshinobu徳川慶喜 徳川慶喜alternative words: Yoshinobu Tokugawa, Tokugawa Keiki, Hitotsubashi Keiki keywords: famous person , meiji revolution , shogun related topics: Edo shogunate , Shogun , Gosanke , Kanagawa treaty , Meiji revolution related web sites: http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-history/bakumatsu/ishin/yosinobu/f_right.html , http://www.edu.pref.ibaraki.jp/rekishi/QandA/QandA.htm explanation: Last and 15th shogun of Edo shogunate. Born in 1873 as the 7th son of Seignior Mito. He strongly criticized a weak attitude of Edo shogunate when Commodore Perry had forced Japan to open her harbors. He had been then condemned to a house confinement but soon pardoned and nominated to the adviser of 14th shogun Iemochi, whom Yoshinobu succeeded in 1866. At that moment, Edo shogunate had been shaken by many factors, he had to surrender to Emperor's army in 1868. Page number: 1 2 12 articles extracted from postgresql database. | |