In 1456–57 Ota Dokan, ruler of the Kanto region under the Japanese shogunate, constructed a castle at Edo. The castle passed in 1590 to Ieyasu Tokugawa, founder of the Tokugawa line of shoguns, who made Edo the capital of a province and, after formally assuming the title of shogun in ...
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is enshrined at Nikko Tokugawa Ieyasu(1543-1616), Japanese military leader and statesman, founder of the Tokugawa dynasty of shoguns. Born Matsudaira Takechiyo of the Matsudaira military clan, Ieyasu grew up in a chaotic period of feuding clans. He was sent at four years old as a hostage to...
An army of priests in rich robes during three days intoned a sacred classic 10,000 times, and Iyeyasu was deified by a decree of the Mikado under a name signifying “light of the east, great incarnation of Buddha.” The less important Shoguns of the line of Tokugawa are buried in ...
This left their strongest allies being those Ainu chiefs of eastern Ezo and above all, the tribal chiefs of Okinawa, united into a loose confederation under the powerful lord known as King Eiso. Conquering these areas meant denying the Kamakura Shogunate their remaining allies and tr...
Matsukura Shigemasa, the daimyo of Arima, was as yet no enemy of the Christians. He had taken over the domain from Arima Naozumi, an apostate who had failed in his promise to the Shogun to purge his ancestral religion from the land. Matsukura put Fr. Navarro under house arrest but gave...
Title/Subject: "A2 Shoguns Phaenix Room (Shinto) Temple Nikko" Photograph Studio: Unattributed Unmounted Condition: Very Good. #06023236 -- $55.00 -- O2 Yumoto, Hakone Type: Albumen - Hand Colored Image Size: 8 1/4 x 10 3/4 in Title/Subject: "O2 Yumoto, Hakone" Photograph Studio: ...