...efeating his enemies in 1600, moving the capital to Edo (江户) and starting 1600, 江户) the Tokugawa shogunate(德川幕府). The government, suspicious of the shogunate(德川幕府).
In 1868, samurai from the two remote southern domains of Satsuma and Choshu seized the imperial palace in Kyoto, declared the restoration of the Meiji emperor and brought to a sudden end two-and-a-half centuries of rule by theTokugawashogunate.