Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun (born 1543)

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Military ruler of Japan from 1603 to 1605

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi…