The family came into being in 1566 when Ieyasu changed his surname to Tokugawa from Matsudaira. The Edo Period marked the family’s heyday. After the Tokugawa Shogunate was toppled and imperial ...

Ieyasu also gave Unnaki a horse and a sword. Five Tokugawa family crests, called Aoi, are dyed on the kosode. It is highly likely that Ieyasu wore it, according to the museum. Otaa was described ...

At around 20-years-old, Hattori Hanzo served as a samurai under Tokugawa Ieyasu, a daimyo who allied ... According to Memories, Hanzo reclaimed the Sword of Eden in the 1570s, assassinated the ...

From his early days as Matsudaira Motoyasu through his rise to the most powerful man in Japan as Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first of the Tokugawa Shoguns, this is the story of the man who truly unified ...