He Outlived Everyone Who Tried to Kill Him

Tokugawa Ieyasu spent his childhood as a hostage traded between rival warlords, watched two of history's most famous samurai rise and destroy themselves around him, and ended up ruling Japan not by being the strongest man in the room, but by being the one still alive when everyone else had burned out. This is his full story: the abduction that started it all, the secret raid that freed his wife and son, the household conspiracy that cost him both, the desperate escape through bandit country after his lord's assassination, and the final decades that ended with him deified as a god at Nikko. Includes the real, sourced details a lot of retellings get wrong or skip entirely. #JapaneseHistory #SengokuPeriod #TokugawaIeyasu #Shogun #JapaneseHistoryDocumentary #SamuraiHistory Chapters 00:00 The Hostage Who Became a God 00:45 Born Into a Collapsing Clan 02:10 Abducted at Five Years Old 03:40 Traded Again to the Imagawa 05:00 Coming of Age, First Battles 06:50 The Battle of Okehazama 07:50 Reclaiming His Birthright 08:40 The Raid That Freed His Family 09:40 Blooded at Azukizaka 10:50 The Takeda Betrayal 11:50 Defeat at Mikatagahara, Shingen's Real Death 13:00 The Tsukiyama Conspiracy 15:00 Hattori Hanzo's Hardest Order 16:30 The End of the Takeda 17:40 Honno-ji: Nobunaga's Assassination 19:00 The Iga Crossing 21:30 Komaki-Nagakute and the Fall of the Hojo 22:40 Hideyoshi's Death and the Five Regents 23:40 William Adams and the Liefde 25:30 The Road to Sekigahara 27:00 Shogun 28:00 The Siege of Osaka 29:40 How He Really Died 30:50 Deified at Nikko