The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.

In January 2023, Tokugawa Iehiro made headlines as he became the nineteenth head of the Tokugawa clan. From the rise of founding patriarch Ieyasu, the clan ruled Japan as shōguns through the Edo ...

Should you choose to take command of the Tokugawa clan, you can lead the real-life version of Toranaga to victory. Or, instead, step into the shoes of Hidetoshi a few years prior to his death or ...

The samurai were a preeminent class defending Japan for centuries. But as the Tokugawa shogunate ushered in an era of ...

which would explain the scene of Ronin and Pirates trying to burn down what we think might be a Tokugawa building or one teased to be like it. In addition to that turmoil, the Matsumae clan was ...

The Tokugawa shogunate unified most of Japan under the military rule of the Tokugawa clan. It restructured Japanese society to have all noble houses as part of a hierarchy under the shogun ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu was a member of the Matsudaira clan and claimed to be a descendant of the Seiwa Genji branch of the Minamoto clan, which earned him a designated rank as a lower-grade Lord.

They were Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. A feudal lord and feared military leader, Nobunaga headed the powerful Oda clan after eliminating his local rivals in the 1550s.

the triumph of the Tokugawa clan and the establishment of the two-and-a-half centuries of peace during the Edo period. The central figure in Clavell’s novel, John Blackthorne, is based on the ...

When the shogun, the last male heir to the Tokugawa clan, dies from an aggressive strain of smallpox that targets young men, he is secretly replaced by an illegitimate daughter, Iemitsu ...