Shogun: The Life of Tokugawa Ieyasu (Tuttle Classics)

One of the most successful rulers in Japanese history and one of the most cunning military strategists in world history, Tokugawa Ieyasu overcame countless dangers and intrigues in his country's most violent age to become the man who finally united all of Japan. His accomplishments and work cemented in place the system of governance and way of life that have become forever linked with traditional Japan.

Shogun, A. L. Sadler's classic biography of this Japanese legend, has been completely re-typeset and designed—and is still the best available. It is dramatic in its narration of the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the measures he took to win the Shogunate and insure that power would remain in his family's hands. It also features a new foreword by bestselling author and samurai expert Stephen Turnbull.

One of the most successful rulers in Japanese history and one of the most cunning military strategists in world history, Tokugawa Ieyasu overcame countless dangers and intrigues in his country's most violent age to become the man who finally united all of Japan. His accomplishments and work cemented in place the system of governance and way of life that have become forever linked with traditional Japan.

Shogun, A. L. Sadler's classic biography of this Japanese legend, has been completely re-typeset and designed—and is still the best available. It is dramatic in its narration of the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu and the measures he took to win the Shogunate and insure that power would remain in his family's hands. It also features a new foreword by bestselling author and samurai expert Stephen Turnbull.

In the course of Japanese history there have been five great military leaders who by common consent stand out above others of their type. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the subject of Shogun, was a contemporary of the latter half of the sixteenth century and essentially perfected the shogunate system.

This classic biography of the famous Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu has been completely re-typeset and designed. It also features a new foreword by bestselling author and samurai expert Stephen Turnbull.

A. L. Sadler was Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney from 1922 to 1948.

Stephen Turnbull is the author of more than fifty books on the military history of Europe and the Far East, and works as a consultant on all aspects of Japanese culture.