At the time of the Meiji Restoration, he helped maintain order in Nagasaki after the collapse of the Tokugawa bakufu.

In 1544 Nobuhide gave Nobuyuki to the Mori clan as part of an alliance deal ; he was kept for 2 years, and the other hostage Tokugawa Ieyasu helped him escape.

After Kobayakawa Hideaki helped Tokugawa Ieyasu to win the Battle of Sekigahara over Ukita and others, he was granted Ukita's domains in Bizen and Mimasaka.

He also helped send delegations from the Tokugawa shogunate to the USA.

Mito is a sub-branch of the Tokugawa family and it was considered the motherland of the Sonnō Jōi ideology and was a center of support for the Tennō and the Imperial court, which helped fuel the Revolution.

At the suggestion of Sakamoto, Saigo helped broker an agreement to supply Chōshū with the weapons it needed to fight the Tokugawa shogunate.

During the months in France, Verny also helped in the negotiations for the First French Military Mission to Japan, consisting of military advisors under Jules Brunet to help train and re-equip the Tokugawa army from 1867, and to assist it in the Boshin War against the Satchō Alliance.

Yamazaki Ansai was part of a larger movement in the early Tokugawa era that revived and helped proliferate Neo-Confucian thought in Japan.

William McMahon ( centre ) with Tokugawa Iemasa | Prince Tokugawa of the Imperial House of Japan | Japanese imperial family in the Australian embassy in Japan in 1952

The Tokugawa Shogunate came to an official end in 1868, with the resignation of the 15th Tokugawa Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu and the " restoration " ( Ōsei fukko ) of imperial rule.

However, a peace agreement was reached wherein Tayasu Kamenosuke, the young head of a branch of the Tokugawa family, was adopted and made Tokugawa family head ; On April 11, Edo Castle was handed over to the imperial army, and the city spared from all-out war.

To ensure a close tie between the imperial clan and the Tokugawa family, Ieyasu's granddaughter was made an imperial consort in 1619.

After Commodore Matthew Perry's opening of Japan, clans from Nagato ( also called Chōshū ) played a key role in the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the establishment of the new imperial government.

On November 9, 1867, Tokugawa Yoshinobu resigned from his post and authorities to the emperor, agreeing to " be the instrument for carrying out " imperial orders.

Although the majority of the imperial consultative assembly was happy with the formal declaration of direct rule by the court and tended to support a continued collaboration with the Tokugawa, Saigō Takamori threatened the assembly into abolishing the title " shogun " and ordered the confiscation of Yoshinobu's lands.

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.

In 1862, Matsudaira was unexpectedly made acting prime minister of the Tokugawa administration ( seiji sōsai ) in a move calculated to obtain imperial approval for the Shogun's actions in signing unequal treaties with the western powers in 1858, ending the national seclusion policy which was supported by the Imperial Court, and Yokoi accompanied him to Edo.

When Hotta Masayoshi, a Rōjū of the Tokugawa government came to Kyoto to obtain imperial permission to sign the Treaty of Amity and Commerce ( United States-Japan ) in 1858, Iwakura gathered courtiers who opposed the treaty and attempted to hinder negotiations between the Shōgun and the Court.

After Commodore Matthew Perry's opening of Japan, clans from Nagato ( also called Chōshū ) played a key role in the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate and the establishment of the new imperial government.

Overall renovation began on Honmaru Palace in May 1633 ( Kan ' ei 10 ) for use a lodging for the upcoming visit of the Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu on his way to the imperial capital at Kyoto.

In 1940, the local government decided that on top of honouring Emperor Kammu, the Jidai festival was also to be held in honour of ( July 22, 1831-January 30, 1867 ) for his work in unifying the country, the power of the imperial court and the affirmation of Kyoto as the center of Japan at the decline of the Tokugawa Shogunate and the Edo Era.

The was a civil war in Japan, fought from 1868 to 1869 between forces of the ruling Tokugawa Shogunate and those seeking to return political power to the imperial court.

However, military movements by imperial forces, partisan violence in Edo, and an imperial decree promoted by Satsuma and Choshu abolishing the house of Tokugawa led Yoshinobu to launch a military campaign to seize the emperor's court at Kyoto.

Due to the persistence of Saigō Takamori, a prominent leader of the imperial faction, the Tokugawa loyalists were shown clemency, and many former shogunate leaders were later given positions of responsibility under the new government.

At this point initial resistance among the leadership in Chōshū and the imperial court subsided, but over the next year the Tokugawa proved unable to reassert full control over the country as most daimyo began to ignore orders and questions from Edo.

Although the majority of the imperial consultative assembly was happy with the formal declaration of direct rule by the court and tended to support a continued collaboration with the Tokugawa ( under the concept of ), Saigō Takamori threatened the assembly into abolishing the title " shogun " and order the confiscation of Yoshinobu's lands.

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.

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

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the, was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family.

Regardless of the political title of the emperor, the " shoguns of the Tokugawa family controlled Japan.

" The of Japan was a task given by the Imperial Court in Kyoto to the Tokugawa family, which they returned to the court in the Meiji Restoration.

Ieyasu also categorized the daimyo according to how close they were to the ruling Tokugawa family: the shinpan were related to the Tokugawa ; the fudai had been vassals of the Tokugawa or allies in battle ; and the tozama who had not allied with the Tokugawa before the battle ( did not necessarily fight against the Tokugawa ).

Sankin-kōtai (" alternate attendance ") was the system whereby the Tokugawa forced all daimyo to spend every other year at the Tokugawa court in Edo, and maintain their family members in Edo when they returned to their han.

Under Tokugawa Ieyasu, the province was assigned as a feudal domain to his ninth son, Tokugawa Yoshinao with official revenues of 619, 500 koku, the largest domain in the Tokugawa family holdings outside of the shogunate itself.

The next year a French expedition to Japan was formed to help the Tokugawa shogunate to modernize its army.

The name of the Edo period derives from the relocation of the Tokugawa regime from its former home in Kyoto to the city of Edo, present-day Tokyo.

The Ryūkyū Kingdom was obliged to agree to form a tributary relationship with the Satsuma and the Tokugawa shogunate, while maintaining its previous tributary relationship with China ; Ryukyuan sovereignty was maintained since complete annexation would have created a conflict with China.

" Iaijutsu " was known before the Tokugawa period ( before 1603 ) but it is unclear exactly when the term " iaijutsu " first came into use, or when exactly drawing the katana from its scabbard first became practiced as a martial art.

In late-16th – and early-17th-century Japan, the term hegemon applied to its “ Three Unifiers ” — Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu — who ruled most of the country by hegemony.

Unlike its predecessor, the Kamakura Shogunate, or its successor, the Tokugawa Shogunate, when Ashikaga Takauji established his bakufu he had little personal territories with which to support his rule.

Despite this, the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate brought Japan the longest period of peace and stability in its history, lasting well over 200 years.

The Late Tokugawa Shogunate ( Bakumatsu ) was the period between 1853 and 1867, during which Japan ended its isolationist foreign policy called sakoku and modernized from a feudal shogunate to the Meiji government.

The Tokugawa clan and its allies decisively vanquish all opposition.

** Tokugawa Ieyasu, the most notable member of the Tokugawa clan and founder of its shogunate

By 1573 he had destroyed the alliance of Asakura clan and Azai clans that threatened his northern flank, obliterated the militant Tendai Buddhists monastic center at Mount Hiei near Kyoto, and also had managed to avoid a potentially debilitating confrontation with Takeda Shingen, who had suddenly taken ill and died just as his army was on the verge of defeating the Tokugawa and invading Oda's domain on its way to Kyoto.

Jim Bambra felt that the island of Wa " draws its inspiration from the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan and presents a more centralized and less war-torn period ".

However, the shogunate did little to support the temple until Tokugawa Ietsuna reconstructed its Main Hall in 1655.

When the Tokugawa Shogunate came to power, in its policy of exterminating the shinobi clans, the Fūma-ryū was declared a pirate clan, one of the only ways of Tokugawa finally ridding itself of this clan, elusively avoiding the pitfalls of direct clashes that befell other clans.

Many of its fighters attacked in retaliation against a variety of Tokugawa locales.

During the Tokugawa era, Hōjō took its seat in the shade, and executive officers now controls various commercial and financial companies in Japan, no longer fighting today on the battlefield but in figures and negotiation.

With its victory over the Tokugawa forces, the military power of the Bakufu was discredited, and traditionally rival domains decided to join forces with Chōshū in the subsequent battles which led to the Meiji Restoration and the end of the Tokugawa regime.

The city has its origins in the Tokugawa period when a castle was built in the 16th century at the ford and a town sprang up around it.

His father was a police officer, but as his clan had supported the Tokugawa bakufu and then the Northern Alliance during the Boshin War of the Meiji Restoration, its members were shut out of higher government positions.