Iyeyasu

Or I·e·ya·su

[ee-ye-yah-soo]

noun

1. Tokugawa 1542–1616, Japanese general and public servant.

Iyeyasu

/ ˌiːjeɪˈjɑːsuː /

noun

1. Tokugawa (ˌtɒkuːˈɡɑːwə). 1542–1616, Japanese general and statesman; founder of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603–1867)

Example Sentences

The greatest of these shoguns was Iyeyásu, who ruled Japan about 1600, soon after Manila was founded.

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All is dark, like tomb of Iyeyasu.

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Many historians ascribed it solely to the individual exertion of Iyeyasu, that learning had been revived since the beginning of the seventeenth century.

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Prior, however, to the undertaking of the Emperor, Iyeyasu, as ex-Shogun, ordered reprints to be made with copper types at his residential town of Sumpu, now called Shidzuoka, in the province of Suruga.

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The blocks, however, which were only rough-cut by the latter, were left unfinished, awaiting the final touch of wise and prudent Iyeyasu.

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