{"slug": "tokugawa-ieyasu", "label": "Tokugawa Ieyasu", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_Ieyasu", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171977", "qid": "Q171977", "description": "founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1543–1616)", "entries": 20, "years": 16, "span": [1541, 1716], "span_label": ["1541 CE", "1716 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 12}, {"title": "Births", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "tokugawa-shogunate", "label": "Tokugawa shogunate", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "toyotomi-hideyoshi", "label": "Toyotomi Hideyoshi", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "march", "label": "March", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "takeda-shingen", "label": "Takeda Shingen", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "takeda-clan", "label": "Takeda clan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-india-company", "label": "East India Company", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-see", "label": "Holy See", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-spain", "label": "New Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "acapulco", "label": "Acapulco", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tokyo", "label": "Tokyo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "osaka", "label": "Osaka", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1541, "year_label": "1541 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Hattori Hanzō, Japanese ninja who served under Tokugawa Ieyasu (d. 1596)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361813253#Births", "title": "1541", "revid": 1361813253, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1543, "year_label": "1543 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 31", "text": "January 31 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1616)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369357899#Births", "title": "1543", "revid": 1369357899, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1543, "year_label": "1543 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 31", "text": "January 31 - Tokugawa Ieyasu (d. 1616), shōgun", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1240532466#Births", "title": "1543 in Japan", "revid": 1240532466, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1570, "year_label": "1570 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 30", "text": "July 30 (28th day of 6th month of Genki 1) – Battle of Anegawa: The allied forces of Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu defeat the combined forces of the Azai and Asakura clans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362475955#July–September", "title": "1570", "revid": 1362475955, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1573, "year_label": "1573 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 16", "text": "February 16–March – The siege of Noda Castle begins near what is now the city of Shinshiro in Japan, after the leader of the Takeda clan, the warlord Takeda Shingen, is shot by a sniper after offering generous terms of surrender to the Tokugawa clan, led by Tokugawa Ieyasu. By March 10, the Noda Castle surrenders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656331#January–March", "title": "1573", "revid": 1366656331, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1584, "year_label": "1584 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 28", "text": "April 28 – (Tenshō 12, 18th day of the 3rd month) In Japan, the Battle of Komaki begins as fight between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu when Ieyasu, commander of 100,000 men, begins the occupation of the Komakiyama Castle, prompting Hideyoshi to advance from Osaka with 30,000 troops.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561067#April–June", "title": "1584", "revid": 1369561067, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1584, "year_label": "1584 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 17", "text": "May 17 – (Tenshō 12, 8th day of the 4th month) The conflict between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu culminates in the Battle of Nagakute.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561067#April–June", "title": "1584", "revid": 1369561067, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1590, "year_label": "1590 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – The Japanese samurai Toyotomi Hideyoshi sends an army of 15,000 men, led by generals Maeda Toshiie and Uesugi Kagekatsu, in an attack on the Hachiōji Castle in what is now Tokyo. The castle is lightly defended, by only 1,300 men, because the samurai Hōjō Ujiteru has most of his troops engaged in defending Hideyohsi's siege of Odawara. The castle is captured after one day, and later destroyed on orders of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369164716#April–June", "title": "1590", "revid": 1369164716, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1600, "year_label": "1600 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 21", "text": "October 21 – The Battle of Sekigahara occurs in what is now present-day Gifu Prefecture, Japan, where the Eastern Army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu emerges victorious against the Western Army led by Ishida Mitsunari. The battle ends the Sengoku period and grants the Tokugawa clan nominal control over Japan, establishing the Tokugawa shogunate with Tokugawa Ieyasu as shogun.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360196741#October–December", "title": "1600", "revid": 1360196741, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1603, "year_label": "1603 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan. The 265-year-long Edo period begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656830#January–March", "title": "1603", "revid": 1366656830, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1605, "year_label": "1605 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicates as shogun of Japan, becoming Ogosho (retired shogun). His son Tokugawa Hidetada succeeds him to the office.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362477436#April–June", "title": "1605", "revid": 1362477436, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1608, "year_label": "1608 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 30", "text": "November 30 – At the colony of Portuguese Macau, a port on the Chinese mainland leased from the Chinese Empire, a group of 100 Japanese samurai, wielding katana and muskets engage in a fight with musket-armed Portuguese soldiers commanded by Governor André Pessoa. Around 50 Japanese are killed and the others are imprisoned until they sign an affidavit blaming themselves for the incident. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the principal shogun of Japan, subsequently ends the \"red seal ships\" program of authorizing Japanese nationals to visit Macau. The incident eventually leads to much larger naval battle in 1610, the Nossa Senhora da Graça incident.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352783723#October–December", "title": "1608", "revid": 1352783723, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1609, "year_label": "1609 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – After a fight on November 30 in Portuguese Macau between Japanese traders and Portuguese soldiers, Japan's ruling shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu, strictly prohibits further trade between Japan and Portugal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365588617#July–September", "title": "1609", "revid": 1365588617, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1609, "year_label": "1609 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 29", "text": "November 29 – In Japan, a treaty is signed between Spanish nobleman Rodrigo de Vivero, former Governor-General of the Philippines and the former shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, for the establishment of a Spanish factory in eastern Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365588617#October–December", "title": "1609", "revid": 1365588617, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1613, "year_label": "1613 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – Keichō embassy: Hasekura Tsunenaga departs Japan in the Date Maru with a Japanese diplomatic mission to the Holy See, scheduled to first travel to Acapulco in New Spain, with a goal of concluding an agreement between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the East India Company, permitting English merchants to live and trade in Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649732#October–December", "title": "1613", "revid": 1366649732, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1614, "year_label": "1614 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Hostilities resulting from an attempt by Toyotomi Hideyori to restore Osaka Castle begin. Tokugawa Ieyasu, father of the shōgun, is outraged at this act, and leads three thousand men across the Kizu River, destroying the fort there.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372816433#October–December", "title": "1614", "revid": 1372816433, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 3", "text": "June 3 – The Eastern Army of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Osaka Army of Toyotomi Hideyori clash during the Battle of Dōmyōji and the Battle of Tennōji.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365922608#April–June", "title": "1615", "revid": 1365922608, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – Forces under shōgun Tokugawa Ieyasu take Osaka Castle in Japan, beginning a period of peace which lasts nearly 250 years. Bands of Christian samurai support Ieyasu's enemies at the Battle of Osaka.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365922608#April–June", "title": "1615", "revid": 1365922608, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Tokugawa Ieyasu, Japanese shōgun (b. 1543)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#April–June", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Deaths › April–June"}}, {"year": 1716, "year_label": "1716 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 19", "text": "June 19 – The new Tokugawa Shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshimune, assumes control of the monarchy's military after the illness and death of the six-year-old Ietsugu, last of the male descendants of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yoshimune's ascendancy begins Year 1 of the Kyōhō Era, which continues until Year 21 in 1736.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559357#April–June", "title": "1716", "revid": 1360559357, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}