The Tokugawa shogunate (/ˌtoʊkuːˈɡɑːwə/ TOHK-oo-GAH-wə; Japanese: 徳川幕府, romanized: Tokugawa bakufu, IPA: [tokɯgawa, tokɯŋawa baꜜkɯ̥ɸɯ]), also known as...

Prince Tokugawa Yoshinobu (德川 慶喜, also known as Keiki; 28 October 1837 – 22 November 1913) was the 15th and last shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan...

'End of the bakufu') were the final years of the Edo period when the Tokugawa shogunate ended. Between 1853 and 1867, under foreign diplomatic and military...

institution, known in English as the shogunate (/ˈʃoʊɡəneɪt/ SHOH-gə-nayt), persisted for nearly 700 years, ending when Tokugawa Yoshinobu relinquished the office...

Tokugawa Iemochi (徳川 家茂) (17 July 1846 – 29 August 1866) was the 14th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, who held office from 1858 to 1866. During...

He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate. Tokugawa Hidetada was born to Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Lady Saigō...

from Edo (now Tokyo), where on March 24, 1603, the shogunate was officially established by Tokugawa Ieyasu. The period came to an end with the Meiji Restoration...

period, 1603 to 1868 Tokugawa shogunate, a feudal regime of Japan during the Edo period Tokugawa clan, a powerful family of Japan Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616)...

Tokugawa Yoshimune (徳川 吉宗, 27 November 1684 – 12 July 1751) was the eighth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1716 until his abdication...

of the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1868, Tokugawa Iesato (1863–1940, from Tayasu family) was chosen as the heir to Yoshinobu as the head of Tokugawa clan. On...

the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Lady Kasuga was his wet nurse, who acted as his political adviser and was at the forefront of shogunate negotiations with...

from the Tosa Domain on Shikoku and became an active opponent of the Tokugawa Shogunate after the end of Japan's sakoku isolationist policy. Under the alias...

Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which...

Tokugawa Iesada (徳川 家定, 6 May 1824 – 14 August 1858) was the 13th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He held office for five years from 1853 to...

Tokugawa Ieshige; 徳川 家重 (28 January 1712 – 13 July 1761) was the ninth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. The first son of Tokugawa Yoshimune...

Tokugawa Ieyoshi (徳川 家慶, 22 June 1793 – 27 July 1853; r. 1837–1853) was the 12th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. Ieyoshi was born as the second...

from 1603 as the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. Edo grew to become one of the largest cities in the world under the Tokugawa. After the Meiji Restoration...

war in Japan fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa shogunate and a coalition seeking to seize political power in the name of the...

Ōsaka no Jin) was a series of battles undertaken by the Japanese Tokugawa shogunate against the Toyotomi clan, and ending in that clan's destruction....

Tokugawa line, but rather to the blood royal, favoring one of the sons of Emperor Go-Sai to become the next shōgun (as during the Kamakura shogunate)...

Prince Tokugawa Iesato (徳川 家達, August 24, 1863 – June 5, 1940) was the first head of the Tokugawa clan after the overthrow of the Tokugawa shogunate, and...

Tokugawa Ieharu 徳川 家治 (20 June 1737 – 17 September 1786) was the tenth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, who held office from 1760 to 1786. His...

(島原･天草一揆), was an uprising that occurred in the Shimabara Domain of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan from 17 December 1637 to 15 April 1638. Matsukura Katsuie...

Tokugawa Ienari (Japanese: 徳川 家斉, 18 November 1773 – 22 March 1841) was the eleventh and longest-serving shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who...

Council of Five Elders, and alongside her son, led the last anti-Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka. She was the daughter of Oichi and...

Nabematsu (鍋松). Arai had traced the Tokugawa family's bloodline back to the Minamoto family, the founders of the first shogunate. Thus, Ietsuga also was called...

(鳥羽・伏見の戦い, Toba-Fushimi no Tatakai) occurred between pro-Imperial and Tokugawa shogunate forces during the Boshin War in Japan. The battle started on 27 January...

from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868. Note: there are different shogun titles. For example, Kose...

as Fujiwara no Yoritsugu (藤原 頼嗣), was the fifth shōgun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan. His father was the 4th Kamakura shōgun, Kujō Yoritsune. The...

is associated with the Meiji Restoration of 1868, which ended the Tokugawa shogunate and began rapid changes that transformed Japan from an isolationist...