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Statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu in ornate robes holding a bow, with arrows on his back, at the Tosho-gu shrine in Nikko, Japan. Tokugawa Iemitsu Edo Castle in the Imperial Palace compound, Tokyo, features white walls, green-tiled roofs, and stone foundations, with manicured shrubs and a wooden fence in the foreground.
Hishikawa Moronobu's painting "Beauty Looking Back," featuring a woman in a red robe.
Okumura Masanobu: Hanshozuku Bijin Soroi Kimono, Edo period (1603–1867), Japan; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. teapot of Oribe ware writing box decorated with cranes in reeds
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Statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu in ornate robes holding a bow, with arrows on his back, at the Tosho-gu shrine in Nikko, Japan.
Tokugawa Ieyasu Statue of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Tōshō Shrine in Nikkō, Japan.

Tokugawa period

Japanese history
Also known as: Edo period
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Quick Facts Tokugawa period, (1603–1867), the final period of traditional Japan, a time of internal peace, political stability, and economic growth under the shogunate (military dictatorship) founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu. As shogun, Ieyasu achieved hegemony over the entire country by balancing the power of potentially hostile domains (tozama) with strategically placed allies (fudai) and collateral houses (shimpan). As a further strategy of control, beginning in 1635, Tokugawa Iemitsu required the domanial lords, or daimyo, to...

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