For example, Lord Yoshii Toranaga is based on Tokugawa Ieyasu, who established the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo in 1603. The ShÅ gun series takes place in 1600, around 60 years after the Portuguese ...

In Tokugawa Japan the daimyo were required by the shogun to alternate their residences between their domains and Edo. The present essay examines this system, known as alternate attendance, from two ...

This was the most senior of the three branches that made up the mighty Tokugawa shogunate, the military government that ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867.