Tokugawa

Definitions

adjective Of or relating to a family of shoguns that ruled Japan from 1603 to 1867, a period marked by centralized feudalism, the growth of urban centers, exclusionary policies against the West, and a rise in literacy.

proper noun Any of a family of shoguns that ruled Japan in the 17th to 19th centuries.

From Japanese 徳川

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A son who would inherit the Buddha ball, and the country, too, and rule Japan in the name of Tokugawa.

Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
A son who would inherit the Buddha ball, and the country, too, and rule Japan in the name of Tokugawa.

Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
A son who would inherit the Buddha ball, and the country, too, and rule Japan in the name of Tokugawa.

Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
Azumi (2003) - Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura and set in Tokugawa Japan, this film follows the life of an assassin girl.

riverbanks Dean Francis Alfar 2004
Azumi (2003) - Directed by Ryuhei Kitamura and set in Tokugawa Japan, this film follows the life of an assassin girl.

Archive 2004-08-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004
"Chu Shun-Shui, 1600 – 82: A Chinese Confucian Scholar in Tokugawa Japan."

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006
See Julia Ching, "Chu Shun-Shui, 1600 – 82: A Chinese Confucian Scholar in Tokugawa Japan," Monumenta Nipponica, 30, no.

How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006
We may certainly [358] call the Tokugawa period the happiest in the long life of the nation.

Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation Lafcadio Hearn 1877
The Tokugawa era saw thousands of peasant revolts against unjust authority.

Will Grief Turn to Anger in Japan? Michael Auslin 2011
There is a brand for Oda Nobunaga as well as Tokugawa Ieyasu and others.

Boing Boing 2009