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Tokugawa Ieyasu


 

:This page is about a prominent shogun in Japanese history. See Tokugawa (disambiguation) for other meanings of the term

Tokugawa Ieyasu in popular culture

  • The history of Tokugawa's rise to power is fictionalized in James Clavell's novel Shogun. Clavell uses the name Toranaga to refer to the Tokugawa throughout his Asian Saga.
  • Kagemusha, a film by Akira Kurosawa tells a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the Battle of Nagashino
  • In the video game Kessen the game is about Ieyasu famous battles in Sekigahara against Ishida Mitsunari and later Sanada Yukimura. The game is dramatic and half fictional. Ieyasu is portrayed as an heroic Warrior albeit sometimes arrogant.
  • Ieyasu appears as an evil posessed character in the samurai anime Samurai Deeper Kyo.

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Introduction
Biography
Tokugawa Ieyasu in popular culture
Ieyasu as a person
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