Empire1603 – 1868 · 265 years

Tokugawa Shogunate

Name: War Atlas: Named Conflicts and Empire Borders, 3000 BCE – Present
Creator: War Atlas
Keywords: wars, military history, conflicts, empires, historical atlas, casualties

Overview

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Edo shogunate, was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.

Wikipedia: Tokugawa shogunate·CC BY-SA 4.0

Borders & accuracy

Reconstructed borders

Solid borders are reconstructed from canonical historical-basemap data or hand-crafted from scholarly atlases.

SOURCEaourednik / historical-basemaps
DETAILhistorical-basemaps:1783:Japan
SNAPSHOT1783
MATCHEDJapan
POLITY TYPEstate

Wars of this empire6

Conflicts whose belligerents name this polity, best-documented first.

Siege of Osaka Castle1614–15
Significant · 100K dead
Boshin War1868–69
Significant · 15K dead
Shimabara Rebellion1637–38
Regional · 37K dead
Battle of Hara1638
Regional
Battle of Ueno1868
Regional
Battle of Wakamatsu1868
Regional

Open in the atlas →Seeks the timeline to 1603 and fits the map to these borders.

Cite as: Tokugawa Shogunate (1603 – 1868). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/e/tokugawa-shogunate · Sources & methodology