We all know that the Japanese Sengoku are inseparable from three people, Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. Oda Nobunaga almost completed his conquest of various places and put forward the idea of Tenjin Bubu, but it fell in the change of Honnō-ji Temple; Toyotomi Hideyoshi ended up depressed because of the problem of heirs, and finally the lord was suspicious of the country; the fruit of Tokugawa Ieyasu's final victory can be said to be the last big winner of the Japanese Sengoku period who was named "Shogun of Seiyi" and created the Edo shogunate.
Matsudaira changed to Tokugawa, Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa Ieyasu was the first Tokugawa clan, whose original surname was matsudaira clan. Tokugawa Ieyasu was originally named Matsudaira Motoyasu, his grandfather was the seventh generation lord of the Mikawa Matsudaira clan, the lord of Mikawa Okazaki Castle, approachable and kind, and a pioneer in battle, so the Matsudaira family's reputation in Mikawa was very good, giving Matsudaira Motoyasu (Tokugawa Ieyasu) a good political support.
Due to the invasion of Takeda Nobuho's forces, the Matsudaira family could not be independent of the Sengoku period as a powerful family, so Matsudaira Motoyasu's father, Matsudaira Hirotada, turned to the help of Imakawa Yoshimoto, the great citizen of Suruga Domain, but Imakawa Yoshimoto of Suruga Kingdom did not simply want to protect Mikawa, but wanted to annex. After his grandfather was killed by his courtiers, his father was also killed by his courtiers, and the young Takechiyo took hostage at the Imakawa Yoshimoto family, and the territory of the Mikawa Kingdom was completely under the custody of the Imagawa clan, promising to return the land after Takechiyo Fumoto.
Nobutora Takeda
The turning point in the story is the barrel narrow space raid, and Imakawa Yoshimoto dies. Matsudaira Motoyasu reclaimed mikawa domain and became the daimyō of Mikawa, after which Matsuda Ieyasu and Takeda Shingen and Iyo decided to attack Imakawa territory at the same time, and the Toe domain was owned by Matsudaira Ieyasu, and the Suruga country passed through the Takeda family. The battle ended quickly due to the sluggishness of the Imakawa family, and the two countries were quickly captured, but at this time the Takeda Army was held back by the Uesugi Army, so Matsudaira Ieyasu immediately occupied the Toe area and parts of Suruga, exiled the Imakawa family lord, and became the daimyō who sat on the Mikawa River.
After becoming a daimyo, it was no longer the former kunigami, there were many Matsudaira clans in the country, so they wanted to have a degree of distinction, Matsudaira Ieyasu found a large group of people to discuss how to change the name, looking through the family tree found that a long time ago there was a Genji clan who entered the Matsudaira family, which was "Tokugawa", living in a place called Tokugawa. In ancient times, he could choose a place name as his surname, and finally chose Tokugawa to show that he was a descendant of Genji, and also indicated that he was a descendant of the imperial family, distinguishing him from other Matsudaira Ka.
Tokugawa seized the world
Tokugawa Ieyasu received an invitation from Oda Nobunaga to form the "Kiyosu Alliance", and later changed his mind to accompany Oda Nobunaga on his southern expedition to the north. Supporting Oda Nobunaga Kami-rakami, although the bloody battle of Takeda Shingen was defeated, the good boy of Mikawa played his own style. In the Battle of Sister River, he and Oda Nobunaga broke through Asai and joined forces with Asakura. Defeating Takeda Katsurai in the Battle of Nagashino, he won the Battle of Komaki Nagayoshi after Oda Nobunaga died in the Honnoji Rebellion, and at the same time eliminated the Hojo clan of the Kanto clan at the Battle of Odawara, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi gave Hojo's domain to Tokugawa Ieyasu and redistributed the original land to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, Tokugawa Ieyasu and ishida Mitsunari defeated the Western Army led by Misei in Sekigahara, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's prestige began to surpass Toyotomi Hideyoshi's, and the situation in Japan changed dramatically. In Japan's last great war, the Battle of Osaka, the Toyotomi clan was exterminated, and Tokugawa Ieyasu truly unified Japan, becoming the most powerful person in Japan, and was named "Shogun Seiyi".
The significance of the Tokugawa shogunate in Japanese history
The first was that the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate ended a century of Japanese sengoku history, and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate led to major wars for more than two hundred years, maintaining the stable development of Japan and leading to the stable development of population and social economy, which was extremely beneficial to society.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Before the Rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan had a strong naval power, and the particularly inflated Toyotomi Hideyoshi also led japan out to occupy Daimyo from Northeast Asia, and finally to occupy India. However, it failed in the first step, but even so, Japan's naval combat strength at that time was still particularly strong. At the same time, because a large number of religions and firearms entered Japan during the Warring States period, Japan's foreign trade was also relatively developed. The openness of thought was obviously not what the rulers wanted to see, and at the same time, the closed country played an obstacle to the development of capitalism, seriously hindered the development of industry and commerce, and led to the same embarrassing situation as China at the beginning of modern times.
Social stability promoted the development of culture, and during the Kuanyong period, Chinese Zhuzi studies flourished, among which the most admired Chinese of the Japanese was Wang Shouren of the Ming Dynasty, and pottery such as tianyao and gaozhiyao appeared. During the Yuan Lu period, various popular novels were most famous for "ukiyo-kusa", and the arrival and development of kabuki and ethnic dramas can be said to have developed the Azuchi Momoyama culture more prosperously and the feudal system more perfect.