Tokugawa Ieyasu was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the t
Portrait by Kanō Tan'yū
Okazaki Castle, the birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu
ukiyo-e print depicting the Battle of Batogahara between Tokugawa clan against Ikkō-ikki movement in 1563–1564.
Oda Nobunaga was a Japanese samurai and daimyō and one of the leading figures of the Sengoku and Azuchi-Momoyama periods. He was the Tenka-bito and regarded as the first "Great Unifier" of Japan. He i
Tokugawa Ieyasu
…Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third 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…
Portrait of Oda Nobunaga (1583, in Chōkō-ji, Important Cultural Property)
Portrait of Oda Nobunaga in colour on silk (1583, in Kobe City Museum, Important Cultural Property)
Site of Nagoya Castle (那古野城跡)
Statue of Oda Nobunaga at Kiyosu Castle