The title role in the TV series "Shogun," based on James Clavell's eponymous novel, was modeled on Tokugawa Ieyasu. We reveal his secret strategy for building Edo, Nagoya, Osaka and Nijo-jo Castles ...

I was eager to see the real thing so when I spotted a tour called Shoguns ... back in time to Japan’s Edo-period via a tour of a stunning 16th-century Matsumoto shogunate castle.

Het kasteel is ook een krachtig en suggestief symbool van het feodalisme dat in Japan heerste tot de Meiji restauratie van 1868 ... developed system of defence and ingenious protection devices dating ...

Upon being proclaimed Shogun (feudal military dictator) of Japan in 1603, Ieyasu constructed a palace that would reflect his supreme power. Nijo Castle in central Kyoto was certainly ostentatious ...