Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Shogunate

The work of unifying Japan was completed by Tokugawa Ieyasu (around 1599) who became shogun, or sole ruler. He led the capital of Japan from a fishing village called, Edo, to a large city that we know today as, Tokyo.

The fishing village called, Edo that Tokugawa transformed into one of the largest city in the world that we know today as, Tokyo.

The "Damiyo"s, or powerful warriors, took control of large lands around 1467 to 1568. They were only taken under control by Tokugawa around the early 1616 before his death.

The Tokugawa clan was a powerful daimyo family in early Japan that nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850-880).