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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 47. Chapters: Tokugawa Ieyasu, Sonam Gyatso, 3rd Dalai Lama, Lettice Knollys, Nicholas Fuller, Magnus II, Duke of Saxe-Lauenburg, Hayyim ben Joseph Vital, Nicolas de Neufville, seigneur de Villeroy, John I, 6th Duke of Braganza, Claudio Acquaviva, Michele Ruggieri, Bartosz Paprocki, Alonso Hernandez del Portillo, John Casimir of the Palatinate-Simmern, Francois de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguieres, Charles Neville, 6th Earl of Westmorland, Leonardo Garzoni, Domenico Fontana, Nicasius de Sille, Charles III, Duke of Lorraine, Meredith Hanmer, Karl von Mansfeld, Anthonis van Obbergen, Costanzo Varolio, Alfonso Ferrabosco the elder, K sa, Antonio Veneziano, Michael Hicks, Giovanni Bembo, Edward Dyer, George John I, Count Palatine of Veldenz, Christine of Hesse, Kan Eitoku, Maeda Toshimasu, Thomas Twyne, James Tyrie, Kasper Franck, Quentin Metsys the Younger, Claude Catherine de Clermont, Thomas Deloney, Iesada Kinoshita, Mary Beaton, Amari Masatada, Constantio Varoli, Ma Gui, Date Terumune, Asahi no kata, Chen Lin, Alessandro Fei, Henry Evans, Sharafkhan Bidlisi, Sebastiao Barradas, Jan Moretus, Murai Nagayori, Sion Phylip, Ichij Kanesada, Francesco Pucci. Excerpt: Tokugawa Ieyasu, January 31, 1543 - June 1, 1616) was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, which ruled from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Ieyasu seized power in 1600, received appointment as shogun in 1603, abdicated from office in 1605, but remained in power until his death in 1616. His given name is sometimes spelled Iyeyasu, according to the historical pronunciation of we. Ieyasu was posthumously enshrined at Nikk T sh -g with the name T sh Daigongen ). Tokugawa Ieyasu was born in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa on the 26th day of the twelfth month of the eleventh year of Tenbun, according to the Japanese cale...
