The Spring and Autumn Period was China's Warring States Period and an important node in Chinese history. However, there was also a Sengoku period in Japan, and if you want to find a similar historical period from China, it is very similar to the Three Kingdoms period. Like the Three Kingdoms, Japan's Sengoku period emperor became a puppet, lost real power, and the daimyōs divided each side and competed for hegemony, and even Tokugawa Ieyasu, who ended this era, was very similar to Sima Yi.
Tokugawa Ieyasu's lineage was the Matsudaira clan of the Mikawa Kingdom, and the Matsudaira clan was derived from the Fujiwara clan, but Tokugawa Ieyasu claimed to be from the Genji clan and was related to the emperor, much like Liu Bei after he proclaimed himself King Jing of Nakayama. Tokugawa Ieyasu's ancestor, the Matsudaira clan, started out as a small noble clan in a weak country, and after years of hard work, it took to occupy the entire Mikawa clan. However, when Tokugawa Ieyasu was born, Due to political factors, Tokugawa Ieyasu's father was forced to divorce his wife, and Tokugawa Ieyasu had to be separated from his birth mother ever since.
In the seventeenth year of astronomy (1548), Imagawa Yoshimoto asked Tokugawa Ieyasu's father, Matsudaira Hirutaka, to send Tokugawa Ieyasu to the Imagawa clan as a hostage. Matsudaira Hirutada, in order to rely on the Imagawa clan against the invading Oda clan, could only agree to this request. However, due to the leak of information, Tokugawa Ieyasu was kidnapped by the Oda clan on the way, but thanks to the plea of his birth mother Yu Ō, Tokugawa Ieyasu was saved from death and remained in Owari Kingdom as a hostage.
Later, the Oda clan was defeated, Oda Nobuhide's son was captured by the Imagawa clan, and the Imagawa clan offered to exchange hostages, and the eight-year-old Tokugawa Ieyasu left the Oda family safely. However, even when he came to the Imakawa clan, Tokugawa Ieyasu was still a hostage.
However, at Rinji Temple, Tokugawa Ieyasu was cared for and educated by Taiyuan Yukisai. Zen master Yukisai was a Master of Japan, he was proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, proficient in Theory of Confucius and Mencius, and a prodigy of military and diplomatic affairs, under his cultivation, Tokugawa Ieyasu grew up very quickly, which was also the most important time in his life.
This period of proton tempered Tokugawa Ieyasu's will, and the professor of Zen master Yukisai increased his wisdom, which gave the young Tokugawa Ieyasu a superior vision and ability. In the era of competition for supremacy, the best speculators often won the final victory, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was a brilliant speculator.
After the "Honnō-ji Rebellion", the former lord Oda Nobunaga set himself on fire and died, and his power was divided into two parts, one inherited by his son Oda Nobuo and the other controlled by his former vassal Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Tokugawa Ieyasu had hoped that Oda Nobuo and Toyotomi Hideyoshi would lose both battles, and he would reap the benefits of the fisherman, but things went unexpectedly to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the "bun boy", stood out in the struggle and became the de facto successor of Oda Nobunaga, and controlled the most powerful force in Japan at that time.
Faced with the menacing Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Tokugawa Ieyasu sensibly chose to compromise, surrendering to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and becoming a vassal of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. But the ambitious Tokugawa Ieyasu has been waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity to turn defeat into victory. In the later years of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's reign, he was arrogant and arrogant, and launched a war of aggression against Korea, which caused the Ming Dynasty to counterattack and the Japanese army suffered heavy losses. This led to the daimyō's dissatisfaction with the Toyotomi family. In addition, toyotomi Hideyoshi, in order to win over Tokugawa Ieyasu, put him in charge of sweeping away the remnants of the Go-Hojo clan in the domain during the war, which made the Tokugawa family lose very little, and Tokugawa Ieyasu also used this time to reorganize his armaments, which laid the foundation for his victory in the Sekigahara War.
On September 18, 1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi fell ill and died. Taking advantage of the rebellion, Tokugawa Ieyasu led his army to a decisive battle with Ishida Mitsunari, who had inherited the Toyotomi family, in Sekigahara. After a fierce battle, Tokugawa Ieyasu won this crucial battle, defeating Ishida Mitsunari. From then on, power fell into the hands of Tokugawa Ieyasu, who eliminated the rival princes and laid the foundation for the Tokugawa clan to dominate the country.
Of course, Tokugawa Ieyasu's hegemonic road is not smooth sailing. During the Battle of Okayama Tennoji Temple, Tokugawa Ieyasu was once in a life-and-death crisis. Sanada Nobuharu defeated 15,000 Echigo troops led by Matsudaira Tadanaga and pressed into the Tokugawa Ieyasu Honjin, causing the Tokugawa Ieyasu army to collapse, and the Tokugawa Ieyasu Honjin retreated for several miles before barely being able to hold their ground. Tokugawa Ieyasu, who fought in this battle, almost committed suicide by cutting his stomach, but fortunately he escaped with the support of his people. The Tokugawa clan, due to the superiority of the total strength of the troops, eventually won the victory, Andyotomi Hiderai and Yododen committed suicide, and the Toyotomi family officially perished. After this war, there were basically no major wars in Japan, and the Tokugawa family officially dominated Japan.
In 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu led the Shogunate in Edo and established a shogunate here, establishing a unified centralized shogunate, known historically as the Tokugawa shogunate or the Edo shogunate. The Tokugawa shogunate was the most powerful and last samurai political organization in Japan, and it lasted for more than 260 years until after the Black Ship Incident, when Japan launched the Fall Movement, and it withdrew from the stage of history.
During these two hundred years, the influence of the Tokugawa shogunate on Japan was profound and long-lasting. In terms of profit, the Tokugawa shogunate completely ended the chaotic situation of the Warring States period in which the masses competed for supremacy, established a unified political power, and brought Japan into an era of peace.
However, the Tokugawa shogunate's policy of closing the country to prevent the western daimyo from growing in power through exchanges with foreign countries caused Japan to fall behind the trend of the times in the era of great navigation and limited Japan's development. In addition, the Tokugawa shogunate implemented a strict feudal hierarchy in order to consolidate the shogunate's rule. Shoguns, daimyōs, and samurai make up only 10 percent of Japan's population, but they belong to the ruling class and control most of their wealth. Industrialists and businessmen make up ten percent of the population and are discriminated against by the ruling class; "peasants" make up about eighty percent of the country's population, and they are the main targets of oppression and exploitation by the ruling class; at the bottom of society are the "untouchables" who have no human rights. Under this system in Japan, the boundaries of the various classes are strict, the hereditary inheritance remains unchanged, and there is no mutual marriage. These measures have seriously hindered the development of capitalism and the progress of society. In addition, the spirit of "Bushido" preached by the Tokugawa shogunate was also an important reason for Japan's fascist path.
Therefore, after the Black Ship Incident, the Japanese people realized the oppressive and backward nature of the shogunate, and they set off a movement to overthrow the Tokugawa shogunate. In 1868, the Tokugawa shogunate completely collapsed, and Tokugawa, a once glorious family, gradually withdrew from the stage of history.