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• Pictures of Tokugawa Ieyasu since the year 1600 until approximately 7 p.m. yesterday.
• Profile of Tokugawa Ieyasu : How the years as a hostage influenced even his body language for a lifetime.
• Places of Tokugawa Ieyasu : From where he was born, where he was held prisoner, to where he left today's Tokyo with.
• Alliance between Tokugawa Ieyasu & Oda Nobunaga : How come it worked so well.
• The First Great Battle of Tokugawa Ieyasu : Nagashino.
• Tokugawa Pedigree : All about their ancestors, the Minamoto clan of Kamakura.
• Married to James Bond : the espionage of Lady Tokugawa Ieyasu, a.k.a Lady Imagawa Tsukiyama, wife of Tokugawa Ieyasu.
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• Tokugawa Ieyasu & Tokugawa Hidetada against Takeda Clan of Kai.
• The Osaka Big Bang : Tokugawa Ieyasu & Tokugawa Hidetada versus Toyotomi Hideyori, plus Lady Tokugawa Sen's second wedding after daddy & grandpa burned her husband's castle.
• Real-life Under the Tokugawa Shogunate : How they even regulated women's dresses & hairdo.
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• Tokugawa Yakuza

• Tokugawa Shoguns versus Jesus Christ
• Tokugawa Shogunate's Starter Kit
• Tokugawa Samurai Legends & Warlords : the Yagyu clan, Honda Heihachi, Sakai Tadatsugu, Sasaki Kojiro, and the Koga ninja clan of Hattori Hanzo.
• Tokugawa's Legendary Enemies : the Sanada Clan, Miyamoto Musashi, Araki Mataemon, etc.
• Tokyo Showdown : Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi & the Folk Heroes of Edo, the immortal 47 Ronins.
• The Final Battle of Tokugawa Ieyasu : Sekigahara ROM (losers didn't write history).
• Tokugawa Ieyasu's Ally : Oda Nobunaga
• Tokugawa Ieyasu & the Domestic Incidents at Oda Nobunaga's Azuchi castle.
• How Tokugawa Ieyasu Escaped Death at Akechi Mitsuhide's Attack on Kyoto that Killed Oda Nobunaga in 1582.
• To Whom the Tokugawa Clan Lost (not that they would admit it) : Toyotomi Hideyoshi of Osaka.
• Tokugawa's Family Mess : How come they always got unlikely sons in-law.
• The Last Shogun on Earth : Tokugawa Yoshinobu
• Detailed story and pictures of the last minutes of the Tokugawa shogunate
• Story and pictures of the Tokugawa clan in the civil war of 1868 versus Emperor Meiji

a miniature artist's view

a fan's sketch

a comic-book artist's version

another movie interpretation

another doll of

in another anime

on a sword part

in videogame

fiberglass doll

in another videogame

18th-century prints

in a comic book

monument in Hamamatsu

monument in Shizuoka

an artist's old Tokugawa (above)
& Tokugawa Ieyasu's cenotaph
in Nikko (right)

another doll of, this time of clay

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