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Tokollo Tshabalala
Tokollo 'Magesh' Tshabalala (1976–2022) was a South African kwaito artist and founding member of TKZee, known for the hits Phalafala and Shibobo; he died at 45 after an epileptic seizure.
Tokoloshe
Tokoloshe (tikoloshe, hili): a small hairy water-sprite or goblin of Zulu, Xhosa, and Sotho folklore, sent by witches to harm victims; word recorded in English from 1833; beds raised on bricks are a traditional precaution.
Tokoname ware
Tokoname ware (常滑焼, Tokoname-yaki) is Japanese pottery made around Tokoname in Aichi Prefecture since the 12th century; one of the Six Ancient Kilns, it is known for vermilion shudei teapots.
Tokopedia
Tokopedia, also known as Tokopedia.com, is an Indonesian e-commerce marketplace founded in 2009, majority-owned by TikTok's parent ByteDance since January 2024 and operating alongside TikTok Shop.
Tokoroa
Tokoroa is a forestry town in South Waikato, New Zealand, on State Highway 1, built from the 1940s to house workers at the Kinleith pulp and paper mill; named for a Ngāti Kahupungapunga rangatira, it grew fastest in the 1960s.
Tokorozawa
Tokorozawa (所沢市) is a city of about 343,000 in southwestern Saitama Prefecture, 30 km from Tokyo; site of Japan's first airfield (1911), Sayama Hills, Sakura Town, and a 2050 net-zero decarbonization ordinance.
Tokoyami Towa
Tokoyami Towa (常闇トワ) is a Japanese VTuber with hololive who debuted on January 3, 2020 with hololive's 4th generation, a devil who released the albums Aster and SHIN.
Toks Olagundoye
Toks Olagundoye (Olatokunbo Susan Olasobunmi Abeke Olagundoye), Nigerian-born American actress born 1975 in Lagos; known for The Neighbors, Castle, Frasier revival, and voicing Mel Medarda in Arcane and Mrs. Beakley in DuckTales.
Toktogul hydroelectric plant
The Toktogul hydroelectric plant (Токтогульская ГЭС) is a 1,440 MW hydroelectric station on the Naryn River in Kyrgyzstan, the country's largest, in service since 1975.
Toktogul Satylganov
Toktogul Satylganov (Токтогул Сатылганов, 1864–1933) was a Kyrgyz folk akyn, improvising poet-singer, and komuz virtuoso known as a defender of the poor and a founder of Kyrgyz written literature.
Toktogul State Prize
The Toktogul State Prize is Kyrgyzstan's state award for distinguished work in literature and the arts, established in 1965 and named after the poet Toktogul Satylganov.
Tokugawa clan (徳川氏)
The Tokugawa clan (徳川氏) is the Japanese samurai family founded by Tokugawa Ieyasu that produced the fifteen shoguns who ruled Japan from 1603 to 1868.
Tokugawa Gosanke
The Tokugawa Gosanke (御三家) were the three senior collateral houses of the Tokugawa clan—Owari, Kii, and Mito—founded by three of Ieyasu's sons to provide shogunal heirs.
Tokugawa Harusada
Tokugawa Harusada (徳川治済, 1751–1827) was the second head of the Hitotsubashi Tokugawa family, a Gosankyō branch house, and the father of the eleventh shogun Tokugawa Ienari.
Tokugawa Hidetada (徳川秀忠)
Tokugawa Hidetada (徳川秀忠), 1579–1632, second Tokugawa shogun (r. 1605–1623), son of Ieyasu; annihilated the Toyotomi at Osaka in 1615, issued the 1614 Bateren tsuihō no fumi expelling missionaries, and tightened foreign trade controls toward sakoku.
Tokugawa Ieharu
Tokugawa Ieharu (徳川家治) was the tenth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, ruling from 1760 to 1786 in an era dominated by the councillor Tanuma Okitsugu.
Tokugawa Iemitsu
Tokugawa Iemitsu (徳川家光) was the third Tokugawa shogun, in office from 1623 until his death in 1651, who codified sankin kōtai and completed Japan's seclusion.
Tokugawa Iemitsu's visit to Kyoto of 1634
Tokugawa Iemitsu's visit to Kyoto of 1634 (寛永十一年の上洛) was a grand shogunal procession to the imperial capital, after which no shogun visited Kyoto again until 1863.
Tokugawa Iemochi
Tokugawa Iemochi (徳川家茂) was the 14th Tokugawa shogun of Japan, ruling from 1858 until his death in 1866 at Osaka Castle during the Second Chōshū Expedition, at about 20 years of age.
Tokugawa Ienari
Tokugawa Ienari (徳川家斉) was the eleventh Tokugawa shogun of Japan, serving from 1787 to 1837, the longest tenure of any shogun at about fifty years.
Tokugawa Ienobu
Tokugawa Ienobu (徳川家宣) was the sixth Tokugawa shogun, ruling from 1709 to 1712, who abolished his predecessor's edicts on compassion for living things and pursued reforms advised by Arai Hakuseki.
Tokugawa Iesada
Tokugawa Iesada (徳川家定, 1824–1858) was the 13th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate, reigning from 1853 to 1858, a period that saw the Convention of Kanagawa and the Harris treaty.
Tokugawa Iesato
Tokugawa Iesato (徳川家達, 1863–1940) headed the main Tokugawa house after the fall of the shogunate and served as President of Japan's House of Peers from 1903 to 1933.
Tokugawa Ieshige
Tokugawa Ieshige (徳川家重) was the ninth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, eldest son of the eighth shogun Yoshimune, reigning from 1745 until his abdication in 1760 in favor of his son Ieharu.
Tokugawa Ietsugu
Tokugawa Ietsugu (徳川家継, 1709–1716) was the seventh shōgun of the Edo bakufu, installed at about age four and the youngest Tokugawa shōgun; he died heirless in 1716.
Tokugawa Ietsuna
Tokugawa Ietsuna (徳川家綱) was the fourth Tokugawa shogun of Japan, reigning from 1651 to 1680. Succeeding his father Iemitsu at age eleven, he oversaw the shogunate's shift from military to civil governance.
Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康)
Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康), 1542–1616, Mikawa daimyo, hostage child, victor of Sekigahara 1600, first Edo shogun 1603, destroyer of the Toyotomi at Osaka 1615, author of the Buke shohatto, founder of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Tokugawa Ieyoshi
Tokugawa Ieyoshi (徳川家慶, 1793–1853) was the twelfth Tokugawa shogun, ruling from 1837 to 1853; his tenure saw the Tenpō Reforms and ended as Commodore Perry's ships arrived at Uraga in 1853.
Tokugawa kinrei-kō
Tokugawa kinrei-kō (徳川禁令考) is a 102-volume collection of the laws, edicts, and prohibitions of the Edo bakufu, compiled by Japan's Ministry of Justice in the early Meiji period.
Tokugawa Mitsukuni
Tokugawa Mitsukuni (徳川光圀), known as Mito Kōmon, was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period, second lord of the Mito domain from 1661 to 1690.