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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 See also:

JAPANESE

Japanese See also:

FAMILY

family which provided the ruling See also:

DYNASTY (Gr. &vvaareta, sovereignty, the position of a hevnori7r, lord, ruler, from SuvaaBay to be able, Suvaµas, power)

dynasty of shoguns from 1603 until the revolution which restored the See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power of the See also:

MIKADO (Japanese for " exalted gate ")

mikado in 1867 . The founder of this dynasty was Iyeyasu Tokugawa (1542–1616), a See also:

GREAT

great See also:

general and consummate politician, who was connected by descent with the Minamoto See also:

CLAN (Gaelic clann, O. Ir. cland, connected with Lat. planta, shoot or scion, the ancient Gaelic or Goidelic substituting k for p)

clan . The most famous of the subsequent shoguns was his See also:

GRANDSON (Ger. Grandsee)

grandson Iyemitsu (from 1623 to 1650 .

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