Conrad D. Totman
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LOCATION: Northford, CT, United States
Emeritus Professor of History, Yale University. Author of Ieyasu: Shogun and others.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder of the last shogunate in Japan—the Tokugawa, or Edo, shogunate (1603–1867). Ieyasu was born into the family of a local warrior situated several miles east of modern Nagoya, one of many such families struggling to survive in a brutal age of endemic civil strife. His…
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