The
Battle of Sekigahara was a decisive battle in September 1600 that cleared the path to the
Shogunate for
Tokugawa Ieyasu and his descendants. Though it would take three more years for
Ieyasu to consolidate his position of power over the
daimyo,
Sekhigahara is widely considered to be the unofficial beginning of the
Tokugawa Bakufu, the final
Shogunate to control
Japan.