Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川 家康? January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan. This shogunate ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Ieyasu seized power in 1600 and received appointment as shogun in 1603. In 1605 he abdicated from office. But he had the power until his death in 1616.[1]
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- McLynn, Frank. (2008). The Greatest Shogun, BBC History Magazine, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp 52-53.
