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There is a brand for Oda Nobunaga as well as Tokugawa Ieyasu and others.
Boing Boing 2009
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We hired Tokugawa—or is Ieyasu the first name?
Facing Budget Cuts, Schools Hire Samurai Crossing Guards Con Chapman 2011
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So Ieyasu—I mean, Lord Tokugawa—would recline in the onsen springs and recite poetry.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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So Ieyasu—I mean, Lord Tokugawa—would recline in the onsen springs and recite poetry.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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So Ieyasu—I mean, Lord Tokugawa—would recline in the onsen springs and recite poetry.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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This gracious prison is a striking manifestation of Japan's determination to avoid exposure or contamination, a policy set down almost 200 years earlier by the first Tokugawa shogun, Ieyasu.
Book review of "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet," a novel by David Mitchell 2010
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To explain how the red-seal policy worked, Ieyasu sent letters to rulers throughout the China Seas area, writing, for example, to a ruler of Central Vietnam in 1601: Should a vessel from this land reach your country at another time, documents bearing this letter's seal should be regarded as a guarantee.
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Ieyasu also tried other means of stimulating foreign trade.
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Surely the process of unification cannot be credited to Hideyoshi and Ieyasu without some mention of Oda Nobunaga.
A disappointment 2008
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His innovation was to issue sailing licenses known as red seals (朱印狀), a policy continued by his successor, Ieyasu Tokugawa, the first shogun of the long and prosperous Tokugawa shogunate.
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