The , or Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府), or Edo bakufu (江戸幕府), was a feudal military dictatorship of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. This period is known as the Edo period and gets its nam... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokugawa_shogunate