<Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa bakufu (徳川 幕府) and the Edo bakufu (江戸 幕府), was the last feudal Japanese military government, which existed between 1600 and 1868 . The head of government was the shōgun, and each was a member of the Tokugawa clan . The Tokugawa shogunate ruled from Edo Castle and the years of the shogunate became known as the Edo period . This time is also called the Tokugawa period or pre-modern (Kinsei (近世)). </P> <P> Following the Sengoku period ("warring states period"), the central government had been largely re-established by Oda Nobunaga during the Azuchi--Momoyama period . After the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, central authority fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu . </P>

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