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Tokugawa
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A Japanese surname, and the name of the shogun family that ruled Japan from the 17th to 19th centuries.
"The Tokugawa shogunate brought over two centuries of relative peace to Japan."
Word Forms
Tokugawas plural
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Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 徳川 (Tokugawa).