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Tokugawa Ieyasu

1542 - 1616

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Tokugawa Ieyasu (born Matsudaira Takechiyo; January 31, 1543 – June 1, 1616) was a Japanese Samurai, Daimyo, and the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was the third of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The son of a minor daimyo, Ieyasu once lived as a hostage under daimyo Imagawa Yoshimoto on behalf of his father. He later succeeded as daimyo after his father's death, serving as ally, vassal, and general of the Oda clan, and building up his strength under Oda Nobunaga. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tokugawa Ieyasu is the 13th most popular military personnel (up from 31st in 2019), the 8th most popular biography from Japan (up from 12th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Japanese Military Personnel.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is most famous for his victory over his opponents in the Battle of Sekigahara, which led to the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 13 out of 2,058. Before him are Karl Dönitz, Bernard Montgomery, Adolf Eichmann, Charles XIV John of Sweden, Oda Nobunaga, and Erwin Rommel. After him are Khalid ibn al-Walid, Charles Martel, Prince Eugene of Savoy, Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, Spartacus, and Vasily Zaitsev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1542, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 3. Before him are Akbar, and Mary, Queen of Scots. After him are John of the Cross, Hattori Hanzō, Mariam-uz-Zamani, Robert Bellarmine, Álvaro de Mendaña de Neira, Ruqaiya Sultan Begum, Jan Zamoyski, Isabella de' Medici, and Giovanni Leonardo Di Bona. Among people deceased in 1616, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 3. Before him are William Shakespeare, and Miguel de Cervantes. After him are Maria Anna of Bavaria, Vincenzo Scamozzi, Jacob Le Maire, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega, John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Andreas Libavius, Magdalene of Brandenburg, Simeon Bekbulatovich, and Johannes Fabricius.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 8 out of 6,245. Before him are Matsuo Bashō (1644), Hokusai (1760), Hayao Miyazaki (1941), Akihito (1933), Oda Nobunaga (1534), and Akira Kurosawa (1910). After him are Emperor Meiji (1852), Miyamoto Musashi (1584), Naruhito (1960), Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1536), Haruki Murakami (1949), and Yukio Mishima (1925).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In Japan

Among military personnels born in Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu ranks 2. Before him are Oda Nobunaga (1534). After him are Hiroo Onoda (1922), Isoroku Yamamoto (1884), Hattori Hanzō (1542), Saigō Takamori (1828), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Minamoto no Yoshitsune (1159), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), Chūichi Nagumo (1887), Ishida Mitsunari (1559), and Toyotomi Hideyori (1593).

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