Tokugawa Ieyasu’s victory at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 secured his future and led to his appointment as shogun in 1603, inaugurating the Tokugawa shogunate that ruled Japan until 1868. But all those accomplishments could have gone to his chief rival, Ishida Mitsunari, with history remembering the Edo Period (1603–1868) as the Ishida shogunate. It is impossible to overstate how different that Japan might have been had Mitsunari emerged vic…
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