Example sentences for: ieyasu

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

  • From here a flight of 207 stone steps takes you up through a wonderful forest of cedars to Ieyasu Tokugawa’s tomb.

  • 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).

  • At Ieyasu’s command, Adams (the model for the hero of James Clavell’s novel Shogun) set up a shipyard in Ito and built Japan’s first two European-style ocean-going vessels.

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

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


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