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TOKUGAWA

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 1047 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TOKUGAWA  , the name of a

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Japanese
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family which provided the ruling
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dynasty of shoguns from 1603 until the revolution which restored the
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power of the
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mikado in 1867 . The founder of this dynasty was Iyeyasu Tokugawa (1542–1616), a
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great
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general and consummate politician, who was connected by descent with the Minamoto
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clan . The most famous of the subsequent shoguns was his
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grandson Iyemitsu (from 1623 to 1650 .

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