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Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616 - Sunpu
Peace, succession, and the misreading of fear as gentleness.
In the winter of his final year at Sunpu, the shogun who unified Japan considers what peace actually costs to maintain.
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Sunpu / Shizuoka · 1616 CE to 1616 CE
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Tokugawa Ieyasu dies at Sunpu
1616 · Sunpu / Shizuoka
Sunpu turns hard-won order into a succession question about whether a new political settlement can outlive its founder.
Ieyasu keeps the event human because political peace is shown passing through one aging body before it becomes institutional habit.
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Tokugawa Ieyasu
1616 - Sunpu
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Peace, succession, and the misreading of fear as gentleness.
In the winter of his final year at Sunpu, the shogun who unified Japan considers what peace actually costs to maintain.