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Tokugawa shogunate 徳川幕府 | |||||||||||||
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1603–1868 | |||||||||||||
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Capital | Edo | ||||||||||||
Government | |||||||||||||
• Emperor | Go-Yōzei (first) Meiji (last) | ||||||||||||
• Shōgun | Tokugawa Ieyasu (first) Tokugawa Yoshinobu (last) | ||||||||||||
Establishment | |||||||||||||
• Battle of Sekigahara | 21 October 1600[1] | ||||||||||||
• Shogunate established by Tokugawa Ieyasu | 1603 | ||||||||||||
3 January 1868 | |||||||||||||
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The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府), and the Edo bakufu (江戸幕府), was a feudal Japanese military government.[2] The heads of government were the shoguns.[3] Each was a member of the Tokugawa family.[4]
These years are known as the Edo period. The period takes its name from the city where the Tokugawa shoguns lived.[5] This time is also called the Tokugawa period[2] or pre-modern (Kinsei).[6]