16 Facts About Tokugawa Hidetada

Tokugawa Hidetada was the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623.

In 1589, Tokugawa Hidetada's mother fell ill, her health rapidly deteriorated, and she died at Sunpu Castle.

The traditional power base of the Tokugawa Hidetada clan was Mikawa.

In 1592 Hideyoshi presided over Tokugawa Hidetada's coming of age ceremony; it was then that Ieyasu's son dropped his childhood name, Takechiyo, and assumed the name Tokugawa Hidetada.

Tokugawa Hidetada was named the heir of the Tokugawa family, being the eldest surviving son of Ieyasu, and his favorite.

In 1590, Tokugawa Hidetada married O-Hime, daughter of Oda Nobukatsu and adopted daughter of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

In 1595, Tokugawa Hidetada married Oeyo, daughter of Azai Nagamasa and adopted daughter of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Tokugawa Hidetada Ieyasu was one of the strongest of the five regents, and began to rally around himself an Eastern faction.

Tokugawa Hidetada had led 16,000 of his father's men in a campaign to contain the Western-aligned Uesugi clan in Shinano.

Ieyasu was incensed with Tokugawa Hidetada and was only convinced by his advisors not to punish his son.

Ieyasu retained significant power until his death in 1616; but Tokugawa Hidetada nevertheless assumed a role as formal head of the bakufu bureaucracy.

When this failed to quell Hideyori's intrigues, Ogosho Ieyasu and Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada brought an army to Osaka.

Tokugawa Hidetada strengthened the Tokugawa hold on power by improving relations with the Imperial court.

Ogosho Tokugawa Hidetada died in Kan'ei 9, on the 24th day of the 1st month.

Tokugawa Hidetada's ashes were ceremoniously laid to rest in the Taitoku-in Mausoleum in Edo.

The years in which Tokugawa Hidetada was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengo.