Tokugawa Ieyasu was a prominent Japanese daimyo and military leader who played a key role in the unification of Japan in the late 16th and early 17th centuries. He founded the Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan for over 250 years until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. Ieyasu is considered one of the most significant figures in Japanese history and is often referred to as one of the three "great unifiers" of Japan, alongside Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
