Outline of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan The Tokugawa Shogunate characterized current Japanese history by unifying the intensity of the countries government and joining its kin. Before the Tokugawa took power in 1603, Japan endured the rebellion and confusion of the Sengoku (Warring States) period, which kept going from 1467 to 1573. Starting in 1568, Japans Three Reunifiers-Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu-attempted to bring the warring daimyo back under focal control. In 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu finished the errand and built up the Tokugawa Shogunate, which would administer in the heads name until 1868. The Early Tokugawa Shogunate Tokugawa Ieyasu vanquished the daimyo, who were faithful to the late Toyotomi Hideyoshi and his young child Hideyori, at the Battle of Sekigahara in October 1600. In 1603, the ruler presented to Ieyasu the title of Shogun. Tokugawa Ieyasu built up his capital at Edo, a little angling town on the swamps of the Kanto plain. The town would later turn into the city known as Tokyo.
