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Occasionally foolhardy in his youth and at times exceedingly cautious in his later years, Ieyasu did not win all of his battles, but he won those that counted. He was also a calculating political gambler, and as much a schemer it would seem as his rival Ishida Mitsunari. More then anything else, though, Tokugawa Ieyasu was a man who seemed to have a sweeping vision and the ability to live his life as a master of Go might win a game-slowly but steadily, and with no doubt in the outcome.
Occasionally foolhardy in his youth and at times exceedingly cautious in his later years, Ieyasu did not win all of his battles, but he won those that counted. He was also a calculating political gambler, and as much a schemer it would seem as his rival Ishida Mitsunari. More then anything else, though, Tokugawa Ieyasu was a man who seemed to have a sweeping vision and the ability to live his life as a master of Go might win a game-slowly but steadily, and with no doubt in the outcome.
Ieyasu's second son Matsudaira Hideyasu, 7th son [[Tokugawa Yoshinao]], 8th son [[Tokugawa Yorinobu]], and 9th son [[Tokugawa Yorifusa]] became the founders, respectively, of the [[Matsudaira clan (Echizen)|Matsudaira clan]] of [[Echizen province|Echizen]], and the three Tokugawa branch families of Owari, Kii, and Mito, known as the ''[[Gosanke]]''.<ref>Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 288n10.</ref>
==Ieyasu in Fiction==
==Ieyasu in Fiction==