The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu
The Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu also called Matsudaira Motoyasu (born Jan. 31, 1543, Okazaki, Japan) was born to a trivial warlord in Okazaki Matsudaira Hirotada, Japan, (1543 -1616 also known as the Edo period) where he ended up a captive of the Imagawa family, powerful neighbours headquartered at Sumpu where he started his military training and administrative arts.
Rise to power
After Tokugawa Ieyasu finished his military training with the Imagawa family, were after he allied himself with the great armies of Oda Nobunaga and then Toyotomi Hideyoshi (second greatest unifier) and expanded his hold on the lands by prosperous attacks on other families such as the Hojo family which was considered to be a large and powerful clan in ancient Japan. Soon after Tokugawa Ieyasu gained more supremacy and authority after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in 1598 the Sengoku period which resulted in a power struggle between all the daimyo where he was successful in …show more content…
Over the rule of the great Tokugawa Shogunate Japan went through a prosperous time of social and economic change known as the edo period. The shogun also focused on the environmental crisis Japan was facing, fixing this by construction the replanting of forests where only the Shogun or daimyo could authorise the use of wood and putting regulations on the use of wood. The Tokugawa bakufu was an influencer on the prosperous social and economic changes on