People of The Sengoku Period in Popular Culture - Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu

• Within the video game series Samurai Warriors, Ieyasu is depicted as a man that values patience and the welfare of his subordinates above all else. Equipped with the kabuto that he was historically valued for, Ieyasu also wields a romanticized spear that has the ability to shoot flames and cannonballs from its center. He is in the spinoff called Samurai Warriors Katana. In Warriors Orochi, he is a starter character, for Wu, alongside Sun Ce and Hanzo Hattori. Although resenting having to carry out the evil Orochi's orders, he resolves to patiently wait for the right moment to rebel, and encourages Sun Ce to do the same. In Warriors Orochi 2, he joins forces with Shu. He tries to save Date Masamune's soul at Saika village, but he fails. For Shu's ending, he tells Liu Bei that though Taigong Wang was young and cocky, "he was a good man at heart." In Dream Mode, he works with Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in proving their strength to Liu Bei, Cao Cao, and Sun Quan at Fan Castle.
• The Akira Kurosawa film Kagemusha tells a fictionalized account of the events leading up to the Battle of Nagashino.
• Portrayed by James Saito in the 2008 BBC docudrama series Heroes and Villains.
• The novel Kagemusha Tokugawa Ieyasu by Keichiro Ryu tells the fictional story of the Ieyasu's double who changes places into assassination Ieyasu ahead of the Battle of Sekigahara. The novel was adapted to manga by Tetsuo Hara.
• Another novel, The Kouga Ninja Scrolls and its adaptations, Shinobi: Heart Under Blade and Basilisk (manga), are fictional stories in which Ieyasu is central to the storylines.
• Ieyasu appears as the leader of the Japanese civilization in Sid Meier's turn-based strategy game Civilization III, as well as in its sequel Civilization IV. He also appears as the Japanese leader in the series' console version Civilization Revolution.
• Ieyasu is a recurring character in the manga series Samurai Deeper Kyo.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu is depicted as one of the six survivors of the destruction of the colony ship Mesopotamia in the anime series Saber Marionette J. He and the other five survivors (all male) land on the planet that becomes known as Terra II, and each man founds a new city-state reflective of his respective heritage. Each city-state is populated by clones of the founder; the Ieyasu that appears at the start of the series is the 15th cloned incarnation of the original.
• He is also featured as a non-playable character in Sengoku Basara. He appears as a man of short stature but has command of a very powerful general, namely Honda Tadakatsu. He appears in Sengoku Basara 3 with an updated, more mature character design and using new gauntlets in battle. His goal is to unite Japan by the force of "bonds". He has a rivalry against Ishida Mitsunari, and his ending confirming that they used to be friends, as he weeps over Mitsunari's death.
• The history of his rise to power is fictionalized in James Clavell's novel Shōgun under the name "Toranaga," and in the television show based on it.
• The board game Shogun, features Tokugawa Ieyasu as one of the Daimyos to choose.
• In the game Age of Empires III: The Asian Dynasties, Tokugawa's reunification of Japan is one of the campaigns of the game.He can also be unlocked in normal mode and is available as Japanese Shogun. He can train units, receive shipments and boosts attack of units around him.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu is the birth father of Yuki Hideyasu, who is the lead of the video game Onimusha: Dawn of Dreams. In game, he goes by the alias Soki.
• Tokugawa Ieyasu is the racoon dog youkai lord of the Tokugawa clan in the eroge Sengoku Rance. His five chief retainers: Honda Tadakatsu, Hattori Hanzo, Sakai Tadatsugu, Sakakibara Yasumasa, Ii Naomasa are portrayed as racoon dog youkais like him. Another racoon dog youkai in this game is also based on a general of Tokugawa clan, Honda Masanobu.
• Tokugawa is a main character in the video game Kessen.
• He appears in a flashback sequence in the manga Tenjho Tenge, as a man who is literally possessed by Sohaku Kago. His granddaughter Senhime also makes a more prominent appearance.
• Tokugawa is mentioned in Vampire Weekend's song, "Giving up the Gun".
• His name is used for Vongola Primo's Japanese name in Katekyo Hitman Reborn!.
• A gender-switched version of Ieyasu appears in Sengoku Otome: Momoiro Paradox.