History 1601E Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Asano Naganori, Hagakure, Yamamoto Tsunetomo

• School: Western University
• Department: History
• Course: History 1601E
• Professor: Cary Takagaki

Document Summary

1587: christian missionaries ordered to leave the country; 1614: all foreign priests to leave japan and christianity prohibited. Tokugawa ieyasu the founder and first shogun of the tokugawa shogunate of japan, which virtually ruled japan from the battle of sekigahara in 1600 until the meiji restoration in 1868. Battle of sekigahara the battle of sekigahara was a decisive battle on october 21, 1600 it cleared the path to the shogunate for tokugawa ieyasu. Tokugawa ieyasu took three more years to consolidate his position of power over the. Toyotomi clan and the daimyo, but sekigahara is widely considered to be the unofficial beginning of the tokugawa bakufu, the last shogunate to control japan. Japan had a long period of peace after the battle. Tokugawa period/ edo period is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of japan, when japanese society was under the rule of the tokugawa shogunate and the country"s 300 regional daimyo.