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Tokugawa clan domain
Origins
Matsudaira Motoyasu, later Tokugawa Ieyasu, spent his youth as a hostage of the Imagawa. After Imagawa Yoshimoto's death at Okehazama in 1560 he returned to Okazaki, broke with the Imagawa and allied with Oda Nobunaga in 1562. In 1566 he took the name Tokugawa.
Rule and society
Ieyasu unified Mikawa, crushing an Ikko uprising, and took Totomi, moving to Hamamatsu in 1570. He survived defeat by Takeda Shingen at Mikatagahara in 1573 and gained Suruga, Kai and part of Shinano after 1582. He fought Toyotomi Hideyoshi to a draw at Komaki and Nagakute in 1584, then became his leading vassal, administering through loyal hereditary retainers.
Decline and legacy
In 1590 Hideyoshi transferred Ieyasu to the former Later Hojo lands in the Kanto, where he made Edo his capital. Victory at Sekigahara in 1600 and appointment as shogun in 1603 turned the domain into the Tokugawa shogunate.
Lineage
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- Tokugawa clan domain was a vassal of Oda regime1562 CE – 1582 CE
- Tokugawa clan domain was a vassal of Toyotomi regime1586 CE – 1598 CE
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