Tokugawa Tsunashige was the second son of Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, and lord of Kôfu han in Kai province. He became lord of the 350,000[1] koku domain in 1661.
His son Tokugawa Tsunatoyo (by his wife Ohora-no-kata, aka Chôshôin) was adopted by Tsunashige's brother Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi as his heir in 1704, and became shogun in 1709, taking the name Tokugawa Ienobu.
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 288n12.
- ↑ Hakuseki, 292n125.