1600: Ishida Mitsunari, Konishi Yukinaga and Ankokuji Ekei for the Tokugawa Shogunate

ExecutedToday.com ^ | November 6, 2011 | Headsman

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On this date in 1600, the emergent Tokugawa Shogunate beheaded three men as rebels in Kyoto after they lost one of the pivotal battles in Japanese history.

The Battle of Sekigahara, on Oct. 21 of that same year, had pitted the shogunate’s founder Tokugawa Ieyasu against a coalition known as the Western Army.

This was the culmination of Japan’s bloody process of national unification.

The preceding ruler, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, had more or less unified Japan under central authority to end a century of civil war. But when Hideyoshi shuffled off leaving a five-year-old heir, a squabbling coterie of regents began elbowing for position.

The political scene eventually crystallized into one of those regents — the said Tokugawa Ieyasu — against all the others. Give yourself a gold star if you guessed that the guys who had their heads lopped off by the Tokugawa Shogunate played for the “all others” team....

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Also executed on this day was Ali Kemal in 1922.

http://www.executedtoday.com/2016/11/06/1922-ali-kemal/

…Kemal happens to be the great-grandfather of British pol Boris Johnson…

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Tokugawa Ieyasu sacrificed his own son for political purposes.

[Celtic Conservative]

Tokugawa ate the cake that Hideyoshi baked and that Nobunaga had made.

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