Lord Yoshii Toranaga is based on the real-life shÅ gun Tokugawa Iyeasu, who is considered one of the three great unifiers of Japan. Tokugawa Ieyasu became shÅ gun in 1603, right around the time ...

The Tokugawa shogunate saw the introduction of a series of isolationist policies that, unlike Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s attempt to expel the Portuguese priests in the late 16th century, ...

Tokugawa Ieyasu founded a dynasty that ruled Japan for more than 200 years, but he had to wait to take his chance to become shōgun and reshape the country in his image.

Not all stories end when the curtain drops. For a dynasty fallen from power, as with a celebrity out of the spotlight, life goes on away from the public eye. The Tokugawa Shogunate -- instituted ...

After the Meiji Restoration brought an end to the shogunate in 1868, Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the headship of the Tokugawa clan and “the last shōgun” entered a life of retirement. His ...

In this episode, Greg Jenner is joined in seventeenth-century Japan by Dr Satona Suzuki and comedian Ahir Shah to learn all about the Edo period and the Tokugawa shogunate. Show more In this ...