Tokugawa Shogunate/Definition

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A definition or brief description of Tokugawa Shogunate.

A period of feudal but reasonably centralized government of Japan between 1603 and 1868, founded by Ieyasu Tokugawa after a period of civil war; also called the Edo Period or Edo bakufu; ended by the Meiji Restoration