Author: Ieyasu Tokugawa
Alternate names: Matsudaira Takechiyo; Tokugawa Ieyasu; 徳川家康; とくがわいえやす
Born: 1543
Died: 1616
Bio: Founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow Oda subordinate Toyotomi Hideyoshi.