Tokyo was the headquarters of the first Shogun, Tokugawa Ieyasu.
was the founder and first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan , which effectively ruled Japan from the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868 . Tokyo . Formerly known as Edo , it has been the de facto seat of government since 1603 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu made the city his headquarters .