Tokugawa Ieyasu: References & Edit History

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. Conrad D. Totman, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Shogun: A Biography (1983), is a later treatment, and Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1600–1843, ch. 1 (1967, reissued 1987), summarizes the administrative aspects of Ieyasu’s rise to power. Nakamura Kōya, Ieyasu den (1965), is a sympathetic scholarly biography (in Japanese) by the preeminent scholar of Ieyasu.

Article History

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Modified link of Web site: The Tokugawa Art Museum - Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Path to Supreme Rule (PDF). Oct 11, 2026
Anniversary information added. May 28, 2026
Anniversary information added. Jan 27, 2026
Add new Web site: The Tokugawa Art Museum - Tokugawa Ieyasu: The Path to Supreme Rule (PDF). Aug 02, 2025
Add new Web site: Academia - Books in the service of politics: Tokugawa Ieyasu as custodian of the books of Japan (PDF). May 23, 2025
Questions and answers added. Feb 19, 2025
Add new Web site: USC U.S.-China Institute - The Empire of Things: Tokugawa Ieyasu�s Material Legacy and Cultural Profile (PDF). Jan 17, 2025
Add new Web site: Weapons and Warfare - Tokugawa Ieyasu Wins the Battle of�Sekigahara. Nov 22, 2024
First paragraph modernization. Apr 11, 2024
Add new Web site: San Francisco State University - SF State Faculty Sites - Tokugawa Ieyasu Shogun: "The Old Badger". Mar 07, 2024
Add new Web site: Ancient Origins - Tokugawa Ieyasu: Most Powerful Shogun and Great Unifier of Japan. Apr 05, 2023
Add new Web site: World History Encyclopedia - Tokugawa Ieyasu. Oct 04, 2022
Add new Web site: The Samurai Archives - Biography of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Jul 19, 2018
Image added. Jan 21, 2010
Added new Web site: Samurai Archives - Biography of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Mar 31, 2009
Added new Web site: ThinkQuest - Biography of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Mar 31, 2009
Added new Web site: Kids Web Japan - Biography of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Mar 31, 2009
Added new Web site: British Broadcasting Corporation - Biography of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Mar 31, 2009
Article revised and updated. Jul 07, 2006
Bibliography revised. Jul 07, 2006
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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