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Tokugawa Ieyasu

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Tokugawa Ieyasu, born Matsudaira Takechiyo, was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

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Birth Year
1543 1
Birth Date
1543-01-31 1
Death Date
1616-06-01 1
Role
Role (category)
Monarch / Royalty 1
Role (category)
Military Leader 1
Classification
Gender
Male 1
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The Edo Period, Eras

In Era

Source Tokugawa Ieyasu (Wikipedia)

Participant In

Source Battle of Sekigahara - Wikipedia

Preceded By

Indirect per Hideyoshi's own cited lead: Ieyasu displaced Hideyoshi's son and named successor Toyotomi Hideyori at Sekigahara in 1600, two years after Hideyoshi's own death, rather than succeeding Hideyoshi directly. Recorded here as the conventional third-unifier succession (Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, Ieyasu) with the indirection stated rather than implied.

Additional Source Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Wikipedia)Lead section (edge: succeeded-by Tokugawa Ieyasu)
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Source Wikidata: Tokugawa Ieyasu
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1. Tokugawa Ieyasu (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia
  • Lead section
    the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868
  • Infobox (born)
    January 31, 1543
  • Infobox (died)
    June 1, 1616
  • Tokugawa Ieyasu: Gender
    He was the third of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
  • Wikipedia biography, role/occupation stated in lead section (w-bbfill-history3-0927)
  • lead paragraph and infobox
    Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 - June 1, 1616) was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
  • In Era: The Early Modern Period, lead paragraph, lifespan
    Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 - June 1, 1616) was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.
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Wikidata: Tokugawa Ieyasu
Wikidata Q171977, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source
Toyotomi Hideyoshi (Wikipedia)
Wikimedia FoundationPreceded By: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Lead section (edge: succeeded-by Tokugawa Ieyasu)
Quote, Preceded By: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Lead section (edge: succeeded-by Tokugawa Ieyasu)
Hideyoshi's young son and successor Toyotomi Hideyori was displaced by Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 which would lead to the founding of the Tokugawa Shogunate.
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Battle of Sekigahara - Wikipedia
Participant In: Unification of Japan, Infobox: commander2
Quote, Participant In: Unification of Japan, Infobox: commander2
Tokugawa Ieyasu: Overall commander Ii Naomasa: Supreme field commander Fukushima Masanori Tōdō Takatora Hosokawa Tadaoki Ikeda Terumasa Oda Urakusai Matsudaira Tadayoshi Kuroda Nagamasa Takenaka Shigekado Honda Tadakatsu Katō Yoshiaki Terazawa Hirotaka Ikoma Kazumasa Tsutsui Sadatsugu Horio Tadauji Kanamori Nagachika Asano Yoshinaga Yamauchi Kazutoyo Kyōgoku Takatomo Furuta Oribe
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