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Tokugawa shogunate (356 words) |
 | The Tokugawa Shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府) (also known as the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship established in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family to 1867 AD. |
| The Tokugawa period, unlike the shogunates before it, was based on the strict class hierarchy established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. |
| The Tokugawa bakufu came to an official end in 1867 with the resignation of the 15th Tokugawa Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu and the "restoration" ('Taisei Houkan') of imperial rule. |
| Tokugawa Yoshimune at AllExperts (890 words) |
| Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, well aware of the extinction of the Minamoto line in 1219, had realized that his descendants might die out, leaving the Tokugawa family at risk of extinction. |
| The founder of the Kii house was one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's sons, Tokugawa Yorinobu. |
| Tokugawa Yoshimune was born in 1684 in the rich region of Kii, a region which was then ruled by his father, Tokugawa Mitsusada. |
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