Name: How Tokugawa Ieyasu Became a Victor in Troubled Times
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How Tokugawa Ieyasu Became a Victor in Troubled Times

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How Tokugawa Ieyasu Became a Victor in Troubled Times

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Book Introduction

From young hostage to ultimate victor,
The life of the last man of the world who seized the era of transformation.

The Sengoku period of Japan, where yesterday's friends became today's enemies, fathers killed their sons, and sons betrayed their mothers.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the final victor who broke the cycle of violence that was rampant with immorality and rebellion.
At a time when the world was shaking and everyone's daily lives were in turmoil, how did Tokugawa Ieyasu, a young hostage to a strange fate, become the master of his time?

The year after Tokugawa Ieyasu was born, the Age of Exploration came crashing down on the Japanese archipelago like a tidal wave.
Western merchants and Jesuit missionaries armed with modern weapons shook up the landscape of Japan's Warring States period, and the resulting "culture shock" completely changed the survival strategies of the warring states' daimyo.
Ieyasu was born at the very moment when the era of change arrived, and he felt the need for new culture early on and actively utilized it in his strategies and tactics.
The thing that had a huge influence on Ieyasu's life was none other than the 'world beyond the sea'.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was a thoroughgoing realist who did not care about the means and methods, and at the same time, he was a romantic of troubled times who never gave up on the great cause of unifying the country.
He did not hesitate to kill his own family to maintain his alliance with Oda Nobunaga, and he did not hesitate to bow to others to protect his family and his subordinates.
He was a fierce politician who acted resolutely for his dream, and the last hero who answered the call to end the age of the sword.

This book traces his life and reveals the secrets to his ultimate triumph.
Patience cultivated during his time as a young hostage, leadership skills acquired during his time as an ally of Oda Nobunaga, a keen sense of perceiving changes in the world, diplomacy learned while fighting enemies, a flexible way of life that allows one to read the situation and act appropriately, and prudence that never lets one's guard down.
All of this was the driving force that made Tokugawa Ieyasu the master of his era.

Even today, in the 21st century, wars continue unabated, and competitions large and small, as well as unreasonable absurdities, disrupt our lives.
By examining the process by which Ieyasu overcame crises through this book, you will gain the strength and wisdom to confidently overcome the turbulent storms of life.

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Chapter 1: The Warring States Period and Tokugawa Ieyasu in World History… 11 pages

Why will the war never end? ┃ Interest and expectations for Tokugawa Ieyasu ┃ The image of the Warring States period has changed ┃ Two purposes for following the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu ┃ The future dreamed of by Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi ┃ Another meaning of the Battle of Sekigahara ┃ Tokugawa Ieyasu's agriculturalism ┃ Tokugawa Ieyasu, a ruler for the present world ┃ The meaning of Tokugawa Ieyasu's will ┃ When did the idea of 'Yeomriyeto Hungujodo' begin?

Chapter 2: The Age of Exploration and the Warring States Period… 25p

The Age of Exploration begins ┃ Spain and Portugal divide the world ┃ The West's hidden strategy in the introduction of firearms ┃ The spread of Christianity and the Jesuits ┃ Portugal's global strategy ┃ The circumstances of the daimyo who became Christians ┃ The background of Oda Nobunaga ┃ The Sengoku daimyo were born from a distribution economy ┃ Three factors that brought about war in Japan ┃ The Ritsuryo system and the emperor system ┃ The silver rush of the Warring States period ┃ The mysterious city of 'Sakai' ┃ Sakai's prosperity and mineral resources ┃ The politics of the tea ceremony

Chapter 3: Tokugawa Ieyasu during his time as a hostage… 47p

Ieyasu's ancestors and the '18 Matsudaira' ┃ Kiyoyasu, Hirotada, Ieyasu ┃ The Oda clan did not kidnap Ieyasu ┃ Life as a hostage in the Imagawa clan ┃ What Ieyasu learned from the Imagawa clan ┃ Connections made during the hostage period become future assets ┃ Tsukiyamadono marries Ieyasu ┃ Personality refined during the hostage period ┃ The union of Tokugawa Ieyasu and his retainers

Chapter 4: Tokugawa Ieyasu, Achieving Independence as a Sengoku Daimyo… 63p

How to view the Battle of Okehazama ┃ The truth about the Battle of Okehazama ┃ A tragedy caused by misunderstanding ┃ Going to Kiyosu at the behest of Mizuno Nobumoto ┃ Why did Ieyasu form the Kiyosu Alliance? ┃ What is the Mikawa Ikko Ikki ┃ The Mikawa Ikko Ikki reveals the characteristics of medieval Japan ┃ Tokugawa Ieyasu becomes independent as a Sengoku daimyo

Chapter 5: The Showdown with Takeda Shingen… 79p

Ieyasu and Takeda Shingen's secret pact ┃ Fatal problems with the secret pact ┃ Takeda Shingen's mistakes ┃ Ieyasu ostracizes Shingen ┃ Ieyasu's diplomatic victory ┃ Why was Takeda Shingen defeated? ┃ Takeda Shingen relieved of his 'three years of resentment' ┃ Why was Ieyasu defeated in the Battle of Mikatagahara? ┃ Shingen's flawless strategy and tactics ┃ Why did Ieyasu sortie from Hamamatsu Castle? ┃ Enemy troops marching behind ┃ Takeda Shingen's death ┃ What Ieyasu learned from the Battle of Mikatagahara ┃ Reasons why Ieyasu was able to rise again

Chapter 6: Tokugawa Ieyasu's Counterattack... 99p

The prelude to the Battle of Nagashino ┃ Ieyasu's stance in preparation for an invasion ┃ Ieyasu's 'decisive battle with the rearguard' ┃ Ieyasu's strategy ┃ The Takeda army with no escape route ┃ Ieyasu's revenge ┃ Battle begins at 8 a.m. ┃ Where did the bullets that disappeared at Nagashino go? ┃ What can be learned from lead isotopes ┃ Jesuit missionaries as lead suppliers ┃ Key men who influenced Ieyasu ┃ The delicate relationship between Ieyasu and Nobumoto ┃ The end of Mizuno Nobumoto ┃ Ieyasu's women: grandmother and mother ┃ Ieyasu's women: legal wives ┃ Ieyasu's women: wives

Chapter 7: Tokugawa Ieyasu's Anguish and Growth... 121p

The Fall of the Takeda Clan ┃ The Mysterious Oga Yashiro Incident ┃ The Impact of the Tsukiyama-dono Incident ┃ Ieyasu's Decision ┃ The Secret Letter Sent by Tsukiyama-dono ┃ The Tsukiyama-dono Incident, Concluded ┃ Why Did Takeda Katsuyori Defeat Tokugawa Ieyasu? ┃ The Extinction of the Takeda Clan ┃ Oda Nobunaga's Unification of Eastern Japan ┃ The Story of Takeda Katsuyori, Passed Down to the Present

Chapter 8: The Siege of Oda Nobunaga… 137p

Konoe Sakihisa, who opened the curtain on the first Nobunaga encirclement ┃ The development of the first Nobunaga encirclement ┃ The conflict between Yoshiaki and Nobunaga ┃ Shogun Yoshiaki's uprising ┃ The context of the large ships built by Nobunaga ┃ The collapse of the first Nobunaga encirclement ┃ The Ashikaga family and Tomonoura ┃ The Tomo shogunate vs. the Azuchi regime ┃ Why was Nobunaga defeated? ┃ What is Nobunaga's revolution? ┃ Nobunaga's ideology of courtesy ┃ Who is Akechi Mitsuhide? ┃ Hideyoshi, the successor to Nobunaga ┃ Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi ┃ Ieyasu's view of Mitsuhide and Hideyoshi

Chapter 9: The Honnoji Incident, Its Inside Story and Consequences… 161p

Questions surrounding the 'Honnoji Incident' ┃ Two conflicts surrounding Nobunaga ┃ The confrontation between Nobunaga and the Imperial Court ┃ The breakup between Nobunaga and the Jesuits ┃ A letter from Jesuit missionary Valignano ┃ The Jesuits take note of Hideyoshi ┃ Ieyasu after the Honnoji Incident ┃ What Ieyasu learned from the Honnoji Incident ┃ The meaning of the 'Kinchu Heikoga Jehodou' ┃ The differences between Ieyasu and Nobunaga

Chapter 10: Tokugawa Ieyasu: From a Loser in Troubled Times to a True King… 175p

The Tenshojingo Rebellion ┃ Hideyoshi's World ┃ The Unknown 'Han-Ise Wan War' ┃ The Spreading Flames of War ┃ Hideyoshi's Political Views ┃ Hideyoshi's Policy Directions ┃ Hideyoshi and the Jesuits ┃ Ishida Mitsunari Emerges as Ieyasu's Rival ┃ The Battle of Sekigahara Changes the Map of the World ┃ Edo Castle and the Tenka Hocho Project ┃ Edo Reform Plan after Ieyasu's Death ┃ Ieyasu's Political Views ┃ Ieyasu Becomes a Loser in Troubled Times ┃ From a Loser in Troubled Times to a True King

Conclusion … 197p

References … 200p

Index … 202p

Translator's Note … 209p

List of maps and charts
Map 1: A map of the power structure around 1566, when Ieyasu began using the surname "Tokugawa"… 4
Map 2: East Asia and Lead Trade Hubs in the 16th and 17th Centuries… 15
Map 3: World map divided by the Treaties of Tordesillas and Zaragoza… 29
Map 4: Location of the Matsudaira Clan… 52
Map 5: Battle of Okehazama Route… 68
Map 6: Power map at the time of the Mikawa Ikko-ikki outbreak… 76
Map 7: The march route of the Takeda clan's army at the Battle of Mikatagahara… 88
Map 8 Horie Castle and Lake Hamana… 91
Map 9: The formations of the two armies during the Battle of Nagashino… 104
Map 10: Distribution of Powers at the Honnoji Incident… 146
Map 11: Edo Shogunate's Edo Restoration Project… 190
Map 12 Edo's coastal canal… 190

Table 1: Tokugawa Ieyasu's Life Chronology … 46
Table 2: Matsudaira Family Tree… 51
Table 3: Character Relationship Chart of the Oga Yashiro-Tsukiyamadono Incident… 127
Table 4: Oda Nobunaga's Wars, 1573–1592 (Tensho Tensho Years) … 151

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Recent research shows that until the time of Oda Nobunaga, nearly 100% of the foundation stones and about 75% of the lead were imported from overseas.
Moreover, it was revealed that the source of the lead that was imported into Japan was the Songto mine in Thailand.
--- p.16, from “Chapter 1: The Warring States Period and Tokugawa Ieyasu in World History”

It is said that Tokugawa Ieyasu was born on December 26, 1542.
However, this is based on the lunar calendar, and in the Gregorian calendar of Christian civilization, it is February 10, 1543.
This is the year that cannons were introduced to Tanegashima.
It is also a symbolic year in which Japan encountered Western civilization.

--- p.27, from “Chapter 2: The Age of Exploration and the Warring States Period”

To whom should the cannons be sold? To which daimyo should the foundation stones and lead be handed over? All these issues were practically decided and resolved by the missionaries.
Therefore, the daimyo who needed firearms had to listen to the missionaries.
The missionaries would have offered conversion to Christianity as a condition of their bargain.
If the daimyo and the people accepted the Christian conversion, they could gain both trade benefits and weapons.
As a result, many Christian daimyo emerged in Kyushu.
In Japanese pronunciation, this is called 'Kirishitan daimyo'.
--- p.33~34, from “Chapter 2: The Age of Exploration and the Warring States Period”

Through the Kiyosu Alliance and the battles with the Ikko-ikki, Ieyasu was able to eliminate all medieval customs in Mikawa and gain control of the distribution economy.
As a result, he succeeded in forming a powerful vassal group that pledged loyalty to him.
His loyal retainers were the source of power that made Ieyasu famous as a Sengoku daimyo.
--- p.78, from “Chapter 4 Tokugawa Ieyasu, Becoming Independent as a Sengoku Daimyo”

Lead was transported to Japan by merchants from Spain, Portugal, and England, and the person who decided where and how much to sell was Francisco Cabral, a Portuguese Jesuit missionary and the person in charge of missionary work in Japan.
In other words, the group that dominated the lead supply chain within Japan was the Jesuits.
--- p.112, from “Chapter 6 Tokugawa Ieyasu’s Counterattack”

In other words, the fact that Ashikaga Yoshiaki moved his base to Tomonoura means that Yoshiaki himself controlled the Seto Inland Sea route and distribution in western Japan.
Even though Yoshiaki was driven out of Kyoto, he was not stripped of his title of Shogun.
Nominally he was still the shogun.
Therefore, the establishment of a residence in Tomonoura should be regarded as the establishment of the 'Tomo shogunate.'
In fact, Yoshiaki appointed Mori Terumoto as vice-shogun and appointed his followers to government posts.
--- p.148~149, from “Chapter 8: The Siege of Oda Nobunaga”

On December 14, 1582, half a year after the Honnoji Incident, Valignano sent a letter to the Spanish governor-general in Manila, outlining his plan to colonize the Ming Dynasty.
Here I added the phrase “Japan will help.”
“Nobunaga refused to send troops to Ming China, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who succeeded him, accepted the mission, so it seems that the King of Spain’s will will be carried out.”
By this stage, Hideyoshi had already become the most powerful man in the Oda clan, the leader of the Kiyosu Conference and the guardian of Nobunaga's grandson, Sanboshi.
Valignano was confident that if Hideyoshi became the next ruler, he would certainly accept Nobunaga's offer to invade the Ming Dynasty, which he had rejected.
--- p.168, from “Chapter 9: The Incident at Honnoji, Its Inside Story and Controversy”

Ieyasu's policy also included a return to the original stance of the samurai government that had continued since the Kamakura and Muromachi periods.
Of course, this was not meant to be a complete revival of the Shugo British system, but rather to give each daimyo responsibility to do their best in their own territories.
Ieyasu's policies were supported by the eastern daimyō who did not benefit from the Nanban trade.
The conflict between Mitsunari and Ieyasu over supporters and methods of national reconstruction took on the color of a conflict between western and eastern Japan.
--- p.188, from “Chapter 10 Tokugawa Ieyasu, From a Loser in Troubled Times to a True King”

The late Hirofumi Yamamoto, a prominent scholar of modern history, pointed out that “early modern Japan actively managed trade, so it was able to conduct necessary trade within a strictly controlled system while enjoying peace unaffected by political fluctuations or wars in Europe or East Asia.”
Furthermore, the system known as the "Bakuhan system" can be evaluated as a unique Japanese local autonomy system that allowed the daimyo of each region to maintain peace and prosper.

--- p.195, from “Chapter 10 Tokugawa Ieyasu, From a Loser in Troubled Times to a True King”

Publisher's Review

■ A new window into the Age of Exploration and Japan's Warring States period

How did the "Age of Exploration" manifest itself in Japan, a world rife with war and violence? This book emphasizes the impact of Western civilization entering Japan and the impact it had on Tokugawa Ieyasu throughout his life, illuminating a new facet of Japan's Warring States period.
Therefore, there are three main points to note in this book.

First, Japan's Warring States period was a time when Asia and the West were connected with Japan as the axis.
After Western-style firearms (matchlock guns) were introduced during Japan's Warring States period, the scope of foreign trade expanded significantly.
Recent research has revealed that the ore materials used to make guns and bullets were imported from outside Japan, particularly from Southeast Asia including Thailand, and that the price paid for them was silver mined from Japan's Iwami Mine.
In this way, Japan's Warring States period was a time when trade networks expanded along with the wave of the Age of Exploration.

Second, the Jesuit missionaries were not simply strangers from across the sea, but a major variable that shook the landscape of the Warring States period.
Portuguese and Spanish missionaries who came to Japan to spread the Catholic faith even took on diplomatic duties.
The Jesuit missionaries were the ones who decided which daimyo to deliver weapons to and how much material to provide for weapon production.
They spread their religion to achieve their mission, while also negotiating with the powerful figures of the time to secure their own interests.

Third, for the two reasons above, Japan's Warring States period was literally a "period of multifaceted upheaval" in which diverse groups and figures interacted.
The Sengoku period of Japan is often understood as a time of power struggles between exceptional generals, but it was actually a dynamic period in which various forces, including daimyo, the emperor and his court, the shogunate, Jesuit missionaries, and Buddhist followers, constantly engaged in alliances and betrayals.
And this dynamism and three-dimensionality was the result of the Age of Exploration crashing into Japan like a tidal wave.
Therefore, this book has the significance of dispelling the narrow-minded misunderstanding surrounding Japan's Warring States period and broadening our horizons to understand East Asian history from a world historical perspective.

■ A short and rich journey following the life of Tokugawa Ieyasu

The author of the original work, Abe Ryutaro, is a historical novelist who has emerged as a leading figure in the next generation of Japanese literature. He won the Naoki Prize, one of Japan's most prestigious literary awards, in 2012, in recognition of his extensive historical knowledge and literary achievements.
Since 2020, he has been writing a series of novels titled "Ieyasu" featuring Tokugawa Ieyasu as the main character, and the series has currently published eight volumes.
This book can be said to be a comma, a brief respite from the immense journey of tracing Ieyasu's life.

The author's affection for 'Tokugawa Ieyasu' is special.
I have kept up with the latest academic research, personally visited historical sites, and added a novelist's imagination to fill in the historical gaps that have yet to be explained, striving to vividly portray the people and times of the time.
As if to prove this, the text is filled with theories and hypotheses of numerous scholars, the latest research in academia, and reasonable counterarguments to existing hypotheses.
Additionally, to ensure that the reader's reading journey is not tiring, the story is written powerfully, using a friendly writing style and dramatic development until the very last moment of the last page.

The greatest strengths of this book are that it provides a comprehensive overview of the history of Japan's Warring States period in a mere 212 pages, and that the process remains fascinating until the very end.

GOODS SPECIFICS

- Date of issue: February 1, 2024

- Page count, weight, size: 212 pages | 334g | 152*225*15mm

- ISBN13: 9791192376370

- ISBN10: 1192376374