TOKUGAWA CLAN

The was a powerful daimyo family of Japan. Beginning with Tokugawa Ieyasu, the family founders rose to power at the end of the Sengoku period, and to the end of the Edo period they ruled Japan as shoguns. All in all, there were fifteen Tokugawa shoguns. Their dominance was so strong that some history books use the term "Tokugawa era" instead of "Edo period".
In addition, the heads of the ''gosanke'' (the three branches with fiefs in Owari, Kishū, and Mito) bore the Tokugawa surname. Additional branches became the ''gosankyō'': the Tayasu, Hitotsubashi, and Shimizu Tokugawa clans. Many daimyo with the Matsudaira surname were descended from the Tokugawa. Examples include the Matsudaira of Fukui and Aizu. Members of the Tokugawa clan intermarried with prominent daimyo and the Imperial family.
Their principal family shrine is the Tōshō-gū in Nikkō, and principal temple is at Kan'ei-ji in Tokyo.
Tokugawa's clan crest, known in Japanese as a "mon", the "triple hollyhock", has been a readily recognized icon in Japan, symbolizing in equal parts the Tokugawa clan and the last shogunate. In ''jidaigeki'', the crest is often shown to locate the story in the Edo period. And in works set in during the Meiji restoration movement, the crest is used to show the bearer's allegeance to the shogunate -- as opposed to the royalists, whose cause is symbolized by the Imperial throne's chrysanthemum crest.

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Family Members

Retainers

Clans

Important Retainers

Family Members

★ Tokugawa Ieyasu

★ Tokugawa Hidetada

★ Tokugawa Nobuyasu

★ Yuki Hideyasu

★ Matsudaira Ietada

★ Matsudaira Tadaaki

★ Matsudaira Tadanao

★ Matsudaira Tadatsune

★ Tokugawa Mitsukuni

★ Tokugawa Toyokazu

Retainers

Clans

★ Abe clan of Mikawa

★ Gosankyo

★ Baba clan

★ Honda clan

★ Ii clan

★ Ishikawa clan

★ Sakai clan

Important Retainers

★ Abe Masakatsu

★ Akamatsu Norifusa

★ Akaza Naoyasu

★ Amano Yasukage

★ Ando Naotsugu

★ Ando Shigenobu

★ Aoyama Tadanari

★ Ariyama Toyouji

★ Asano Nagaakira

★ Baba Nobushige

★ Fukushima Masanori

★ Fukushima Masayori

★ Furuta Shigekatsu

★ Hattori Hanzo

★ Hattori Masanari

★ Hiraiwa Chikayoshi

★ Hirose Kagefusa

★ Hisamitsu Sadakatsu

★ Honda Hirotaka

★ Honda Masanobu

★ Honda Masazumi

★ Honda Narishige

★ Honda Shigetsugu

★ Honda Tadakatsu

★ Honda Tadamasa

★ Honda Tadatoki

★ Honda Tadatsugu

★ Honda Tadazumi

★ Honda Yasushige

★ Honda Yasutoshi

★ Hoshino Masamitsu

★ Hoshino Masanao

★ Hoshino Masatoshi

★ Ii Naomasa

★ Ii Naotaka

★ Ii Naotsugu

★ Ina Tadatsugu

★ Ishikawa Kazumasa

★ Ishin Suden

★ Kikkawa Hiroie

★ Kobayakawa Hideaki

★ Koriki Kiyonaga

★ Kutsuki Mototsuna

★ Mizuno Nobutomo

★ Naito Ienaga

★ Naito Nobunari

★ Natsume Yoshinobu

★ Ogasawara Ujisuke

★ Ogawa Suketada

★ Okubo Tadayo

★ Okubo Tadasuke

★ Okubo Tadachika

★ Okubo Nagayasu

★ Okudaira Sadamasa

★ Sakai Tadatsugu

★ Sakakibara Yasumasa

★ Suganuma Sadamitsu

★ Torii Tadayoshi

★ Torii Mototada

★ Uemura Masakatsu

★ Wakisaka Yasuharu

★ Watanabe Moritsuna