The Tokugawa clan (Shinjitai: 徳川氏, Kyūjitai: 德川氏, Tokugawa-shi or Tokugawa-uji) is a Japanese dynasty which produced the Tokugawa shoguns who ruled Japan...

Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which...

the Tokugawa clan governed Japan from Edo Castle in the eastern city of Edo (Tokyo) along with the daimyō lords of the samurai class. The Tokugawa shogunate...

Matsudaira clan, Matsudaira Motoyasu became a powerful regional daimyo under Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi and changed his name to Tokugawa Ieyasu....

clan, by the Tokugawa clan descended from Seiwa Genji. Sakuma clan (佐久間氏) – cadet branch of Miura clan who descended from Kanmu Heishi. Sanada clan (真田氏)...

samurai of the Sengoku era, who served the Tokugawa clan as a general, credited with saving the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu and then helping him to become the...

the Tokugawa clan in the early Edo period. Each of those four generals was the founder of a cadet branch clan: Honda Tadakatsu of the Honda clan Ii Naomasa...

traditional power base of the Tokugawa clan was Mikawa. In 1590, the new ruler of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi enlisted Tokugawa Ieyasu and others in attacking...

(parent house of Tokugawa clan) Nitta clan (parent house of Tokugawa clan) Minamoto clan (parent house of Matsudaira and Nitta clans) Imperial House of...

service to the Tokugawa clan, the Sakai were classified as a fudai family, in contrast with the tozama ("outsider clans"). The fudai Sakai clan originated...