Example sentences for: ieyasu

How can you use “ieyasu” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • At first, Ieyasu Tokugawa was eager to promote foreign trade.

  • Edo expanded rapidly to accommodate Ieyasu’s 80,000 retainers and their families and the myriad common people who served their daily needs.

  • Note the monument to the daimyo Matsudaira Masatane, Ieyasu’s trusted retainer.

  • In the mountains of Tochigi Prefecture, about 150 km (93 miles) north of Tokyo by train, Nikko is the final resting place of Ieyasu, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, who died in 1616.

  • Of the Edo-era buildings that have survived or been restored, the most important are the main hall of Kan’eiji and the Toshogu Shrine to the first Tokugawa Shogun Ieyasu — a lesser version of the great sanctum at Nikko, in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture (see page 64).


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