The Tokugawa clan was a powerful daimyo family of Japan. They descended from Emperor Seiwa (850-880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji) by the Nitta clan. Minamoto no Yoshishige (+1202), grandson of Minamoto no Yoshiie (1041-1108), was the first to take the name of Nitta. He sided with his cousin Minamoto no Yoritomo against the Taira clan (1180) and accompanied him to Kamakura. Nitta Yoshisue, 4th son of Yoshishige, settled at Tokugawa ((Kozuke province) and took the name of that place. Tokugawa Chikauji descended from Yoshisue in the 8th generation. He witnessed the ruin of the Nitta in their war against the Ashikaga; he settled at Matsudaira (Mikawa province). Yasuchika (1369-1412), son of Chikauji, took the name of Matsudaira. He was in charge of Iwatsu castle, then of Okazaki castle, and strengthened the authority of his family in the Mikawa province. Ieyasu (1542-1616) descended from Yasuchika in the 7th generation. In 1567 he obtained from the Emperor permission to revive the name Tokugawa. In so doing, he claimed descent from the Minamoto clan. The clan rose to power at the end of the Sengoku period, and to the end of the Edo period they ruled Japan as shoguns. All in all, there were fifteen Tokugawa shoguns. Their dominance was so strong that some history books use the term "Tokugawa era" instead of "Edo period". In addition, the heads of the gosanke (the three branches with fiefs in Owari, Kishū, and Mito) bore the Tokugawa surname. Additional branches became the gosankyō: the Tayasu, Hitotsubashi, and Shimizu Tokugawa clans. Many daimyo with the Matsudaira surname were descended from the Tokugawa. Examples include the Matsudaira of Fukui and Aizu. Members of the Tokugawa clan intermarried with prominent daimyo and the Imperial family. Their principal family shrine is the Tōshō-gū in Nikkō, and principal temple is at Kan'ei-ji in Tokyo. Tokugawa's clan crest, known in Japanese as a "mon", the "triple hollyhock", has been a readily recognized icon in Japan, symbolizing in equal parts the Tokugawa clan and the last shogunate. In jidaigeki, the crest is often shown to locate the story in the Edo period. And in works set in during the Meiji restoration movement, the crest is used to show the bearer's allegeance to the shogunate -- as opposed to the royalists, whose cause is symbolized by the Imperial throne's chrysanthemum crest. (more)
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Gosanke:
The Tokugawa Gosanke were three branches of the Tokugawa clan of Japan. They were descended from Tokugawa Ieyasu through younger brothers of his heir, Tokugawa Hidetada. Ieyasu established the three houses to provide successors to the Tokugawa shogun
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Gosankyō:
The were three branches of the Tokugawa clan of Japan. They were descended from the eighth of the fifteen Tokugawa shoguns, Yoshimune (1684-1751). Yoshimune established the gosankyo to augment (or perhaps to replace) the gosanke, the heads of the p
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Matsudaira clan:
The Matsudaira clan is a Japanese clan that originated in and took its name from Matsudaira county, in the old Mikawa province. It is known for being the clan into which Tokugawa Ieyasu was born. Before taking the Tokugawa surname, he was known as Ma
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Mon (crest):
Mon is the crest of Kubo Family. * Takeda bishi (武田菱), Takeda, Baba clans * Tooyamake fuji (遠山家藤) * Tsurunomaru (鶴の丸), Hino, Yanagiwara clans * Tsuta (蔦), Kiga clan * Uchiwazasa (団扇笹) * Ume (梅) * Umebochi (梅鉢), Maeda, Sugawara, Takatsuji clans * Urak
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Hollyhock:
The hollyhocks comprise about 60 species of flowering plants in the genus Alcea (Ál-ce-a) in the mallow family Malvaceae, native to southwest and central Asia. They are biennial or short-lived perennial plants growing to 3.5 m tall, with broad, round
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Hoshina Masamitsu:
Hoshina Masamitsu (1561-October 31, 1631) was a Japanese daimyo of the Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan. Masamitsu was the son of Hoshino Masanao, and after having lent his support to Tokugawa Ieyasu at the 1600 Battle of Sekigahara, he was g
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Hattori Masanari:
Hattori Masanari was a retainer under the Tokugawa clan during the late Sengoku period of Japanese history. The eldest son of Hattori Hanzō, Masanari began to fight alongside his father by the mid 1590's, and succeeded him in 1596, when he was 31 yea
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Ii Naokatsu:
Ii Naokatsu (1590-August 24, 1662) was a Japanese daimyo of the Edo period who served the Tokugawa clan. He was also known as Ii Naotsugu. Naokatsu succeeded to family headship following his father's death in 1602. Under Tokugawa Ieyasu's orders, Nao
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Naitō Nobunari:
was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan; he later became a daimyo. Nobunari is believed to have been the illegitimate son of Matsudaira Hirotada (which would make him the half-brother of Tok
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Aoyama Tadanari:
was a Tokugawa general and chief retainer at the end of the Sengoku and start of the Edo period. He was the father of Aoyama Tadatoshi, and the Aoyama region of Shibuya is named after him.
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Honda Shigetsugu:
Honda Shigetsugu for his ferocity. Honda Narishige was his son.
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Ōkubo Nagayasu:
Okubo Nagayasu (1545-June 13, 1613) was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period who served the Tokugawa clan. He worked as a mining magistrate in various Tokugawa-controlled mines. Due to misconduct, he was deprived of office, and died soon afterward.
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Honda Masazumi:
Honda Masazumi (1566-April 5, 1637) was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan. He later became a daimyo, and one of the first rōjū of the Tokugawa Shogunate. Masazumi was born in 1565;
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Ōkubo Tadachika:
Ōkubo Tadachika (1553-July 28, 1628) was a Japanese daimyo and samurai general of the Azuchi-Momoyama period through Edo period. He was the second head of Odawara Domain. Tadachika was a senior vassal of the Tokugawa clan, and fought in many of its m
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Natsume Yoshinobu:
Natsume Yoshinobu (1517-1573) was a relatively senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Yoshinobu began service as vassal to the Matsudaira before initially supporting Tokugawa Ieyasu's ris
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Watanabe Moritsuna:
Watanabe Moritsuna (1542-1620) was a Japanese retainer under the reputed clan of Tokugawa throughout the late Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Sympathetic to the cause of Tokugawa Ieyasu (who was forced to be a comrade of the Imagawa by means of a hos
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Honda Yasutoshi:
Honda Yasutoshi (1570-March 29, 1622) was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period through early Edo period, who served the Tokugawa clan; he later became a daimyo. Yasutoshi was the second son of Sakai Tadatsugu; after a time as a hostage to
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Naitō Ienaga:
was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku Period through Azuchi-Momoyama Period, who served the Tokugawa clan. He was the son of Naitō Kiyonaga. Ienaga served Tokugawa Ieyasu from a young age, and was famed for his skill with the bow. He assisted in the
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Honda Tadatsugu:
Honda Tadatsugu (1547-1612) was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Tadatsugu was the husband to one of Suganuma Sadamura's daughters and more than likely possessed a very firm relation
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Amano Yasukage:
Amano Yasukage was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Yasukage had established for himself a firm reputation beneath the Matsudaira by means of serving under Tokugawa Ieyasu even du
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Uemura Masakatsu:
Uemura Masakatsu (1535-1592) was a Japanese samurai of the Sengoku period who served the Tokugawa clan. Masakatsu served Tokugawa Ieyasu from a young age, though he would side with a rioting monto group within the province of Mikawa in 1565. Around t
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Ina Tadatsugu:
Ina Tadatsugu (1550-1610) was a senior retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. Serving under the right arm of Takeda Katsuyori as a civil officer of moderate ability, it is highly speculated that Ta
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Honda Hirotaka:
Honda Hirotaka was a retainer of the Tokugawa clan throughout the late Sengoku period of Feudal Japan. Being the son of Honda Nobushige--and thus a direct relative to the famed right-hand warrior of Tokugawa, Tadakatsu--Hirotaka supported Tokugawa Ie
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Hisamatsu Sadakatsu:
Hisamatsu Sadakatsu (1560-1624) was a retainer beneath the clan of Tokugawa throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As Hisamatsu was a son of Hisamatsu Toshikatsu and the respective half-brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu by virtue of sharing t
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Hattori Hanzō:
Hattori Hanzō, also known as Hattori Masanari, the son of Hattori Yasunaga, was a famous Samurai and a head of clan from the Iga region of Japan. Hanzō served Tokugawa Ieyasu loyally and well. He is commonly depicted as Ninja in manga and novel ficti
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Sakai clan:
The Sakai clan descended from Emperor Seiwa and is a daimyō branch of the samurai Minamoto clan by the Nitta clan in Edo period Japan. Nitta Yoshisue, 4th son of Nitta Yoshishige, settled in the Tokugawa clan's Kōzuke Province and took the name of th
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Honda clan:
The Honda clan is a Japanese family claiming descent from the medieval court noble Fujiwara no Kanemichi. The family settled in Mikawa and served the Matsudaira clan as retainers; later, when the main Matsudaira family became the Tokugawa clan, the H
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Hiraiwa Chikayoshi:
Hiraiwa Chikayoshi (1542-1611) was a senior retainer to Tokugawa Ieyasu throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. As the time at which Chikayoshi began his service beneath the Tokugawa remains relatively unknown, it can be easily surmised
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Matsudaira Tadaaki:
Matsudaira Tadaaki (1583-May 1, 1644) was a Japanese samurai of the Azuchi-Momoyama Period through early Edo period. He was a retainer and relative of the Tokugawa clan, and became a daimyo in 1602.
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Hirose Kagefusa:
Hirose Kagefusa (?-?) was a senior retainer to Tokugawa Ieyasu throughout the latter Sengoku Period of Feudal Japan. With the speculation that Kagefusa supported the Takeda at the time at which he was eligible for vassalship, he became a supporting v
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