Tokugawa clan
The was a powerful
daimyo family of
Japan. Beginning with
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the family founders 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 family shrine is the
Toshogu in
Nikko.
Tokugawa's clan crest, 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 oppose to the royalists who often use the imperial throne's chrysanthemum crest.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu*
Tokugawa Hidetada*
Tokugawa Nobuyasu*
Yuki Hideyasu*
Matsudaira Ietada*
Matsudaira Tadaaki*
Matsudaira Tadanao*
Matsudaira TadatsuneClans
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Abe clan of Mikawa*
Gosankyo*
Baba clan*
Honda clan*
Ii clan*
Ishikawa clan*
Sakai clanImportant Retainers
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Abe Masakatsu*
Akaza Naoyasu*
Amano Yasukage*
Ando Naotsugu*
Ando Shigenobu*
Aoyama Tadanari*
Ariyama Toyouji*
Asano Nagaakira*
Baba Nobushige*
Fukushima Masanori*
Fukushima Masayori*
Furuta Shigekatsu*
Hattori Hanzo*
Hattori Masanari*
Hiraiwa Chikayoshi*
Hirose Kagefusa*
Hisamitsu Sadakatsu*
Honda Hirotaka*
Honda Masanobu*
Honda Masazumi*
Honda Narishige*
Honda Shigetsugu*
Honda Tadakatsu*
Honda Tadamasa*
Honda Tadatoki*
Honda Tadatsugu*
Honda Tadazumi*
Honda Yasushige*
Honda Yasutoshi*
Hoshino Masamitsu*
Hoshino Masanao*
Hoshino Masatoshi*
Ii Naomasa*
Ii Naotaka*
Ii Naotsugu*
Ina Tadatsugu*
Ishikawa Kazumasa*
Ishin Suden*
Kikkawa Hiroie*
Kobayakawa Hideaki*
Koriki Kiyonaga*
Kutsuki Mototsuna*
Mizuno Nobutomo*
Naito Ienaga*
Naito Nobunari*
Natsume Yoshinobu*
Ogasawara Ujisuke*
Ogawa Suketada*
Okubo Tadayo*
Okubo Tadasuke*
Okubo Tadachika*
Okubo Nagayasu*
Okudaira Sadamasa*
Sakai Tadatsugu*
Sakakibara Yasumasa*
Suganuma Sadamitsu*
Torii Tadayoshi*
Torii Mototada*
Uemura Masakatsu*
Wakisaka Yasuharu*
Watanabe Moritsuna
