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Here's the really crazy part - Ieyasu's men caught Mitsunari, and Ieyasu ordered them to let him go so he could lead the enemy troops.

They know who Tokugawa Ieyasu is, they know about his rival Ishida Mitsunari and the Battle of Sekigahara the show is building up to.

Yup, that's the problem, the practice is inconsistent even in Japan and we do say Oda Nobunaga, Tokugawa Ieyasu etc for sufficiently historical figures.

The most important of the samurai lords who joined Oda after this battle was Tokugawa Ieyasu from Mikawa Province.

However, if Sekigahara goes differently, or Tokugawa Ieyasu misgoverns or dies younger, then perhaps Date Masamune becomes the final unifier of Japan.

I think Tokugawa Ieyasu had less than 600 troops for the first half of his career, something like that.

It’s not exactly clear why the author did that, but in James Clavell’s novel, Adams is named John Blackthorne and Ieyasu is Yoshii Toranaga.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was more impressive than Tokugawa Ieyasu through his whole life...

Edo was just a small fishing village with a broken-down castle until Ieyasu showed up around 1590, rebuilt the castle, and made the area into his base.

Fortifié au XVe siècle, 江戸 (Edo) devient la base militaire du shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu à la fin du XVIe siècle, puis la capitale de son gouvernement féodal.

Really, in many respects Hideyoshi was a much smarter, stronger, better man than Ieyasu, but Ieyasu avoided the overexpansiveness mistake, and thus his family went on to win in the end.

But we don't usually reorder Chinese and Korean names, and before the Meiji era Japanese names weren't reordered (or rather, we don't reorder the names of historical figures!?), so it's Tokugawa Ieyasu not Ieyasu Tokugawa.

Everything was confiscated and Joosten and Adams were ordered to Osaka and then to Edo, the center of power (present-day Tokyo), to be interrogated through a Portuguese interpreter." "Their replies luckily proved to the liking of Ieyasu and the survivors were compensated for the losses they suffered in Usuki.

This article really gives one a sense of 16th and 17th century relations between different European nations (Portuguese vs Dutch) & Japan, and mentions a couple exceptionally interesting folks (links below) "The military ruler of Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu, showed great interest in the Dutch ship, especially in the firearms it was carrying.

There's three great unifiers from the Sengoku era - Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The fictional Lord Toranaga is based on the historical Tokugawa Ieyasu, a brilliant strategist who founded a dynasty that lasted 268 years.

Mitsunari was so generally offputting that that a number of lords, generals, and captains defected to Ieyasu's side because they disliked Mitsunari so much.