Tokugawa Ieyasu

About Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1542–1616) was a pivotal military leader and the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, which established the Edo period—a roughly 260-year era of peace and isolation in Japan. As one of the "Three Great Unifiers" of Japan, his strategic military victories, culminating in the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600, secured his legacy, earning him the #768 rank for historical importance in MIT's Pantheon project.

Despite this foundational role in Japanese history, Ieyasu's current internet visibility is relatively modest. He garnered approximately 985K annualized Wikipedia views in 2025. This figure represents an overattention of about +3x relative to his historical ranking, suggesting a disproportionately high level of modern digital interest for a figure of his importance compared to the general pool. However, his Year-over-Year change shows a sharp decline of -54.7% in attention, indicating that the current online interest is rapidly diminishing, with Q1 versus Q3 momentum showing a further -20% drop this year.

For comparative context, a figure ranked significantly higher in historical importance, Horace (#442), received less than a third of Ieyasu's 2025 traffic at only 267K views, suggesting that for some eras of history, the digital spotlight is heavily concentrated.