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Here is a little Japan quiz.
Who is the man pictured below?
Is it
a) Oda Nobunaga
b) Tokugawa Ieyasu
c) Toyotomi Hideyasu
If you chose the answer b) Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) then you are correct. Ieyasu is arguably Japan's most powerful and influential historical figure. A contemporary of Queen Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare in England, Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate which was to rule Japan until1868.
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