Tokugawa Ieyasu in Edo period was a dummy general.

There is a theory that Tokugawa Ieyasu in Edo period was a dummy general to tell the truth. It is said that the reason was the possibility of Tokugawa Ieyasu's hitting by a stray bullet at the formation of the Osaka summer and the death, and was prepared the dummy general to conceal this. The reason with such a theory comes from material that the bullet hit the palankeen that Tokugawa Ieyasu had gotten on.