Her symbolic role in this unique mission to the Spanish Court was intended to emphasize the international links which were forged by her 16th-century ancestor, Ieyasu Tokugawa.

* 1590 – Tokugawa Ieyasu enters Edo Castle.

* 1573 – Battle of Mikatagahara, in Japan ; Takeda Shingen defeats Tokugawa Ieyasu.

* 1616 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun ( b. 1543 )

Japan was under the control of the Tokugawa shogunate, enforced by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

They gave up teaching swordsmanship in 1614 when they fought in the Army of the West against Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Osaka, which they lost.

The war had broken out because Tokugawa Ieyasu saw the Toyotomi family as a threat to his rule of Japan ; most scholars believe that, as in the previous war, Musashi fought on the Toyotomi side.

* 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.

His work was continued, completed and finalized by his successors Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

At the Battle of Anegawa, Tokugawa Ieyasu joined forces with Nobunaga and defeated the combined forces of the Asakura and Azai clans.

At the decisive Battle of Nagashino, the combined forces of Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu devastated the Takeda clan with the strategic use of arquebuses.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified Japan in 1590, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who founded the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1603, were loyal followers of Nobunaga.

Nobunaga's organizational system in particular was later used and extensively developed by his ally Tokugawa Ieyasu in the forming of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo.

These unifiers were ( in order ) Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi ( also called Hashiba Hideyoshi above ) and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The youngest, O-go, married the son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Hidetada ( the second shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate ).

Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu seized power and established a government at Edo ( now known as Tokyo ) in 1600.

Hideyoshi led troops in the Battle of Anegawa in 1570 in which Oda Nobunaga allied with future rival Tokugawa Ieyasu ( who would eventually displace Hideyoshi's son and rule Japan ) to lay siege to two fortresses of the Azai and Asakura clans.

He allied himself with Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the two sides fought at the inconclusive Battle of Komaki and Nagakute.

Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but remained in power until his death in 1616.

* March 24 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.

* January 31 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun ( d. 1616 )

* Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicates as shogun of Japan, becoming Ogosho.

* June 4 – Forces under the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years.

* June 1 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shogun ( b. 1543 )

After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, central authority fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu who completed this process and received the traditional title of shogun or noble military ruler as he was a descendant of the ancient Minamoto clan.

After the Battle of Sekigahara in the year 1600 that marked the beginning of the Edo period, shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu reorganized roughly 200 daimyo and their territories, into the han, and rated them based on their production of rice from rice paddies.

* Tokugawa Ieyasu, first Tokugawa shogun of Japan, spent his childhood as a hostage

Tokugawa Ieyasu, first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate

Ieyasu still failed to achieve complete control of the western daimyo, but his assumption of the title of shogun helped consolidate the alliance system.

After further strengthening his power base, Ieyasu installed his son Hidetada ( 1579 – 1632 ) as shogun and himself as retired shogun in 1605.

Although a start date of 1573 is often given, in more broad terms, this period begins with Nobunaga's entry into Kyoto in 1568, when he led his army to the imperial capital in order to install Ashikaga Yoshiaki as the 15th, and ultimately final, shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate, and lasts until the coming to power of Tokugawa Ieyasu after his victory over supporters of the Toyotomi clan at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

Soon after Adams ' arrival in Japan, he became a key advisor to the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and built for him Japan's first Western-style ships.

He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.

In 1603 Emperor Go-Yozei granted Ieyasu the title of shogun.

In 1605 Ieyasu abdicated as shogun in favor of Hidetada.

In order to avoid his predecessor's fate, Ieyasu established a dynastic pattern soon after becoming shogun by abdicating in favor of Hidetada in 1605.

He was the first member of the Tokugawa family born after Tokugawa Ieyasu became shogun.

However, Ieyasu made it clear that Iemitsu would be next in line as shogun after Hidetada.

During the early years of the Tokugawa shogunate, many nobles and aristocrats moved to Fukui city in hopes to win the favor of Hideyasu, the second son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was widely expected to become the new shogun.

Ieyasu was posthumously enshrined at Nikkō Tōshō-gū with the name.

In 1567, Motoyasu changed his name yet again, his new family name was Tokugawa and his given name was now Ieyasu.

Thereafter, Ishida Mitsunari accused Ieyasu of disloyalty to the Toyotomi name, precipitating a crisis that led to the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600.

Together with Kamenosuke ( who took the name Tokugawa Iesato ), Yoshinobu moved to Shizuoka, the place to which Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of Tokugawa shogunate, had also retired, centuries earlier.

Thereafter, Ishida Mitsunari accused Ieyasu of disloyalty to the Toyotomi name, precipitating a crisis that led to the Battle of Sekigahara.

After her husband died, Matsu, then known by her Buddhist nun name of Hoshun-in, assured the safety of the Maeda clan after the year 1600 by voluntarily going as a hostage to Edo, capital of the new shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, whom she loathed throughout her life as she watched him, her husband, and Hideyoshi compete for power.

The village of “ Tokugawa ”, from which Tokugawa Ieyasu took his clan name, was located within what is now the city of Toyota.

File: Dutch-Japanese trading pass 1609. jpg | This document is a " trade pass " ( Dutch: handelspas ) issued in the name of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Matsudaira Motoyasu would later change his name to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Born under the name Nagafukumaru, he was the 10th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, by his concubine Oman-no-kata.

Born as the ninth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, his childhood name was Gorōtamaru.

In 1590, before Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo Castle, the area now known as Marunouchi was an inlet of Edo Bay and had the name Hibiya.

Takata was the name of the mother of Matsudaira Tadateru ( the sixth son of Iemitsu's grandfather, the previous shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu ) who favored the area as a sightseeing spot.

A Tōshō-gū ( 東照宮 ) is any Shinto shrine in which Tokugawa Ieyasu is enshrined with the name Tōshō Daigongen ( 東照大権現 ).

*, ( 1552 – 1589 ), a posthumously given name to Lady Saigo, first consort of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

By order of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the era name of Emperor Xianzong of Tang China was adopted.

As lord of Satsuma, he was among the most powerful lords in Japan at the time, and formally submitted to Tokugawa Ieyasu in 1602, to prove his loyalty, being rewarded as a result with the name Matsudaira Iehisa ; Matsudaira being a branch family of the Tokugawa, and " Ie " of " Iehisa " being taken from " Ieyasu ", this was a great honor.

In 1567, his grandson Ieyasu ( 1542 – 1616 ) obtained from the Emperor permission to revive the name Tokugawa.