Battle of Sekigahara

On this day in history, in the year 1600, was fought the Battle of Sekigahara. It was this battle which secured the dominance of Tokugawa Ieyasu and enabled him to eventually rise to become Shogun of Japan. This victory by the Tokugawa forces ushered in a new era of peace and stability as the unified Japan came firmly under the political leadership of the Tokugawa shogunate. That leadership would remain in the family for several centuries until the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, was displaced by the Meiji Restoration when political authority was returned to the Emperor.