Iyeyasu

American

[ee-ye-yah-soo] / ˈi yɛˈyɑ su /

Or Ieyasu

noun

Tokugawa 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.

Iyeyasu British

/ ˌiːjeɪˈjɑːsuː /

noun

Tokugawa (ˌtɒkuːˈɡɑːwə). 1542–1616, Japanese general and statesman; founder of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1867)

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The greatest of these shoguns was Iyeyásu, who ruled Japan about 1600, soon after Manila was founded.

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All is dark, like tomb of Iyeyasu.

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As to the organisation of what Hideyoshi had roughly put together, it was reserved for the prudent intelligence of Iyeyasu to accomplish.

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It was a partial recognition of the old r�gime which Iyeyasu had inherited from Hideyoshi, as far as the territorial lords were concerned, who were installed or recognised anterior to the advent of Iyeyasu to power.

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It has been ascribed, by the way, to the rare sagacity of Iyeyasu as a politician, that the territories of the two kinds of daimyo, tozama and fudai, were so adroitly juxtaposed, that the latter were able to keep watch over the former's attitude toward the Shogunate.

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