For instance, the famous Prince Tokugawa Iyéyasu entered salvation as Gongen Sama.
In the time of Iyéyasu the burden might be hateful, but it had to be borne; and so it would have been to this day, had not circumstances from without broken the spell.
When Iyéyasu died, the shrine called Antoku In was erected in his honour to the south of the main temple.
At the end of the sixteenth century Prince Tokugawa Iyéyasu was in the habit of carrying a spear made by Muramasa, with which he often scratched or cut himself by mistake.
On his death he named his son Hideyori, then a child of six years, his successor, appointing at the same time a council of regency, in which Iyéyasu held the chief place.
When Adams accompanied Saris to court, he had at length got leave from Iyéyasu to visit his native land.
Saris mentions the mint-master of Iyéyasu as "one that hath vowed that, whensoever the Emperor shall die, he will cut his own guts and die with him.
Early in 1616 a report began to circulate that Iyéyasu was dead.
He rose against Iyéyasu in 1614, but was besieged in Osaka; and a truce was patched up.
Iyéyasu held the Shogunate only two years, and in 1605 transferred that title to his son Hidetada, though still retaining much power.
In connection with this capture, an interesting conversation between Iyéyasu and Adams is recorded (ii.
Iyéyasu gained a decisive victory; his enemies were scattered with fearful slaughter; and the young Hidéyori was at the mercy of the conqueror.
His great victory at Sekigahara, in 1600, confirmed the power of Iyéyasu for many years.
Even in Nobunaga's days Iyéyasu was a powerful leader, and he had only submitted to Taiko Sama after some hesitation.
Iyéyasu and that it was held "ominous amongst the Japans to answer to dead men's letters.
Noguchi and my boy Yasu turned up here, having been forwarded from Uwajima.
Yasu was a young monkey belonging to the lower classes, and I don't remember that he had any virtues.
In 1611, Iyéyasu obtained documentary proof of what he had long suspected, viz.
Iyéyasu now put forth strenuous measures to root out utterly what he believed to be a pestilent breeder of sedition and war.
My lady Tamamo," said Abe Yasu the Diviner, "I have made a song after the fashion of the Chinese.
Then Abe Yasu performed divination, and he came before the Wise Men and said: "The wine is sweet, but the aftertaste is bitter.
When Abe Yasu the Diviner had spoken, he came to Tamamo and he touched her with the sacred Gohei.
And together they went to Tamamo's bower, and Abe Yasu took the sacred Gohei in his right hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yasu" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
