No random gift. The lantern was originally carved to commemorate Tokugawa Iemitsu (1604-1651), the third shōgun of the mighty Tokugawa clan, which unified feudal Japan under its stern rule for ...

By the time Tokugawa Iemitsu, Ieyasu’s grandson, became the third Tokugawa shogun, the practice of Edo residency was institutionalized in a policy designed to maintain central control ...

A portrait of Tokugawa Iemitsu. Although he became shōgun when Hidetada abdicated in 1623, his father retained actual power until his death in 1632. (Courtesy the Historiographical Institute, The ...

Solidifying Tokugawa shogunate rule, "born shogun" Iemitsu, third of his line, paved the way for dramatic change via political reform and new ideas.

With the revolt crushed, Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa shogun, decided to slam shut the gates of the country to all foreign influence and impose a self-isolating, draconian policy of control, the ...

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Iemitsu had solidified the political foundation for the Tokugawa dynasty, which lasted from 1603 to 1867. He persecuted Christians and instituted an isolationist foreign policy that lasted for ...

When the shogun, the last male heir to the Tokugawa clan, dies from an aggressive strain of smallpox that targets young men, he is secretly replaced by an illegitimate daughter, Iemitsu, who is ...