TOKUGAWA IEYASU

born , Jan. 31, 1543, Okazaki, Japan died June 1, 1616, Sumpu original name Tokugawa Takechiyo the founder of the last shogunate in Japan, the Tokugawa, or Edo, shogunate (16031867). Additional reading A.L. Sadler, The Maker of Modern Japan: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1937, reprinted 1977), is the principal work in English, containing mostly battle stories and anecdotes. C.D. Totman, Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu, 16001843, ch. 1 (1967), summarizes the administrative aspects of Ieyasu's rise to power. Koya Nakamura, Ieyasu den (1965), is a sympathetic scholarly biography by the preeminent scholar of Ieyasu (in Japanese).