Edo
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Edo, also romanized as Jedo, Yedo or Yeddo, is the former name of Tokyo.
Folding screen view of Edo in the 17th century, showing Edo Castle on the upper right corner
Famous places of Edo in 1803
Scroll depicting the Great Fire of Meireki
Nihonbashi in Edo, ukiyo-e print by Hiroshige
Tokugawa Ieyasu
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Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The son of a minor daimyo, Ieyasu once lived as a hostage under daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto on behalf of his father. He later succeeded as daimyo after his father's death, serving as ally, vassal and general of the Oda clan, and building up his strength under Oda Nobunaga.
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Okazaki Castle, the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu
An ukiyo-e print depicting the Battle of Batogahara. In his early days as daimyo of Mikawa, Ieyasu had difficult relations with the Jōdō Shinshū temples which escalated in 1563–1564.