The scriptures were collected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan's Edo era, and donated to the temple.

Ghost of Yotei may begin as a personal tale of revenge, but Atsu’s journey could turn into a deeper fight shaped by Japan’s ...

The Tokugawa clan, which produced successive shogun rulers throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), will hold a ceremony Jan. 29 to formally anoint its first new head in more than half a century.

Singer, ed., Edo: Art in Japan 1615-1868 (Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998). Yonemoto, Marcia, Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Tokugawa Period (1603-1868) ...

First built in 1617, the elaborate Toshogu Shrine complex in Nikko includes the mausoleum believed to contain the remains of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Edo period’s first shogun. Hiroshi Okamoto Among ...

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 ...

Prefectural government officials said that when the Edo Period copper plates were removed ... Oda Nobunaga (1534-1582), but rebuilt in 1642 by Tokugawa Iemitsu, the third shogun of the Tokugawa ...

Among these allies was Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu controlled significant territory in northeastern Honshu. Ieyasu’s castle headquarters was located in the city of Edo (now Tokyo). Hideyoshi had been dead ...