* 1638 – Tokugawa shogunate forces put down the Shimabara Rebellion when they retake Hara Castle from the rebels.

In the years before the Tokugawa shogunate, that innovative daimyo from Western Japan had been actively involved in negotiating trade and diplomatic treaties with Spain and with the colonies of New Spain ( Mexico ) and the Philippines ; and it was anticipated that the mere presence of the Princess could serve to underscore the range of possibilities which could be inferred from that little-known history.

* Ranald MacDonald, first man to teach the English language in Japan and one of the interpreters between the Tokugawa shogunate and Commodore Perry when the latter made his trips to Japan on behalf of the US government in the early 1850s

* 1868 – Former Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu surrenders Edo Castle to Imperial forces, marking the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

On March 31, 1854, the or was concluded between Commodore Matthew C. Perry of the U. S. Navy and the Tokugawa shogunate.

The Kanagawa treaty became a significant causative factor leading to serious internal conflicts within Japan — an upheaval which was only resolved in 1867 with the end of the Tokugawa shogunate and the beginning of the Meiji Restoration.

It was the seat of power for the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868.

During the Edo period, the shogunate appointed administrators ( machi bugyō ) with jurisdiction over the police and ( beginning with the rule of Tokugawa Yoshimune ) the fire department ( machibikeshi ).

* Imperial Prince Sadasumi ( 貞純親王 ) ( 873 – 916 ) – father of Minamoto no Tsunemoto ( 源経基 ), founder of the Seiwa Genji, from whom the Kamakura shogunate and the Ashikaga shogunate were both descended, as well as from whom the Tokugawa shogunate claimed descent

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

From 1641 to 1853, the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan enforced a policy which it called kaikin.

With the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Meiji Restoration of 1868, jujutsu had become unfashionable in an increasingly westernised Japan.

* 1868 – Meiji Restoration in Japan: The Tokugawa shogunate is abolished ; agents of Satsuma and Chōshū seize power.

* 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Toba-Fushimi between forces of the Tokugawa shogunate and pro-Imperial factions begins, which will end in defeat for the shogunate, and is a pivotal point in the Meiji Restoration.

The word nihontō became more common in Japan in the late Tokugawa shogunate.

Under the isolationist Tokugawa shogunate, swordmaking and the use of firearms declined.

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

** Tokugawa shogunate

* 1869 – Imperial Japanese forces defeat the remnants of the Tokugawa shogunate in the Battle of Hakodate to end the Boshin War.

* 1868 – Boshin War: The Battle of Utsunomiya Castle ends former Tokugawa shogunate forces withdraw northward to Aizu by way of Nikkō.

was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868.

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.

During the Tokugawa shogunate it was appropriated to the Satake clan, who ruled the region for 260 years, developing the agriculture and mining industries that are still predominant today.

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.

# Tokugawa Ieyasu, ruled 1603 – 1605

Followed by short appointments of Tsutsui Junkei and Toyotomi Hidenaga by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to the lord, the Tokugawa Shogunate ultimately ruled the city of Nara directly, and most parts of Yamato province with a few feudal lords allocated at Kōriyama, Takatori and other places.

Later in 1638, the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Matsudaira Naomasa became the ruler because the Horio clan had no heir, and his family ruled until the abolition of the han system.

* 1634 ( Kanei 11 ): Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu visited Miyako ; and it is believed that Meishō's father actually ruled in her name until she abdicated in favor of her younger half-brother.

was the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623.

Worried that his brother Tokugawa Tadanaga might assassinate him, however, he ruled carefully until that brother's death by Seppuku in 1633.

Although initially faced with attacks by hostile clans, he managed to overcome them after a few defeats and eventually ruled one of the largest fiefdoms of the later Tokugawa shogunate.

Tokugawa Yoshimune was born in 1684 in the rich region of Kii, a region which was then ruled by his father, Tokugawa Mitsusada.

Tokugawa Nariaki ( 徳川 斉昭, April 4, 1800 – September 29, 1860 ) was a prominent Japanese daimyo who ruled the Mito domain ( now Ibaraki prefecture ) and contributed to the rise of nationalism and the Meiji restoration.

During the Edo period, portions were ruled by the Sakura Domain, and portions were tenryō under the direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate.

During the early part of the Tokugawa shogunate, Numazu was ruled as part of Odawara Domain, but with the construction of Numazu Castle in 1777, it became the separate Numazu Domain.

The area was tenryō territory ruled by a daikan appointed directly by the Tokugawa shogunate.

After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Kakegawa Domain was created, and ruled by numerous fudai daimyō.

During the Sengoku period, the area was controlled by the Matsudaira clan, a branch of which later rose to prominence as the Tokugawa clan, which ruled Japan during the Edo period.

During the Edo period, half of present-day Anjō was controlled by Okazaki Domain and the other half by Kariya Domain with some scattered portions of tenryō territory ruled directly by the Tokugawa shogunate in between.

The area eventually came under the control of the Tokugawa clan, and during the Edo period, most of the area was ruled by Nishio Domain, a minor fudai feudal domain of the Tokugawa shogunate.

However, every shogun from the Minamoto, Ashikaga and Tokugawa families had to be officially recognized by the emperors, who were still the source of sovereignty, although they could not exercise their powers independently from the Shogunate.

A Modern History of Japan from Tokugawa Times to the Present.

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.

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

* January 3 – The 15-year-old Mutsuhito, Emperor Meiji of Japan, declares the " Meiji Restoration ", his own restoration to full power, under the influence of supporters from the Chōshū and Satsuma Domains and against the supporters of the Tokugawa Shogunate, triggering the Boshin War.

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

* August 8 – The Tokugawa shogunate ( Bakufu ) in Japan forbids foreigners other than Chinese from traveling freely or trading outside of the ports of Nagasaki and Hirado.

The Japanese Shogun Tokugawa initiated the Edo Period, an isolationist period where Japan cut itself off from the world as a whole.

The term iaijutsu ( 居合術 ) was known before the Tokugawa period ( before 1603 ), and the term iaido was known from 1932.

" 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.

Born from Neo-Confucianism during times of peace in Tokugawa Japan and following Confucian texts, Bushido was also influenced by Shinto and Buddhism, allowing the violent existence of the samurai to be tempered by wisdom and serenity.

Japan enjoyed a period of relative peace during the Sakoku period from 1600 to the mid-19th century, also called the " Pax Tokugawa ".