tokugawa

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

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

Even in extremely anti-immigration/xenophobic places like Tokugawa Japan 1600-1850, travelers were always highly respected and sought after.

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

You could see the modern kind of moral decay even in Tokugawa Japan 200 years ago.

Kabuki theater under the Tokugawa Shogunate), much of their creativity focused on the evasion of the controls that remained in place.

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

People had kimonos with crazy prints throughout the Heian, warring states and Tokugawa periods.

Tokyo, called Edo back in the days the seat of the Tokugawa Shogunate, a military dictatorship, is the national capital because of that.

One in particular that made me wake up when I read it was Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Various sorts of kayfabe were in effect, such as the Japanese emperor, allegedly descended from the gods, being under the thumb of the Tokugawa shogunate.

But I don't think the Tokugawa Shogunate was ever considered especially corrupt or incompetent.

Instead I get this list of things that are associated with the "mentality," a list that, among other things, describes Tokugawa Japan perfectly.

During the Tokugawa era, scholars of kokugaku, or "country learning," endeavored to revive nativist traditions and loosen the hold of Chinese influence.

For anyone familiar with the 'marshmallow test' for determining how well 5 year olds will do later in life, Tokugawa had it figured out 370 years before Walter Mischel: "The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.

Japan also wasn't extremely isolationist until 4 decades into the Tokugawa Shogunate, so it's really a period of 1641 to 1853, and as Wikipedia puts it, correctly to my knowledge, it " maintained limited-scale trade and diplomatic relations with China, Korea, the Ryukyu Islands and the Netherlands ".

The book is full of the real Tokugawa's writings, which can be very profound.

Tokugawa would remain a loyal ally of Oda from this time till Nobunaga's death.

Tokugawa Japan saw foreign faces as existential threats.