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*''Born: [[1701]]/12/22 (19 Jan [[1702]])''
*''Died: [[1760]]/9/20''
*''Japanese'': [[島津]]継豊 ''(Shimazu Tsugutoyo)''

Shimazu Tsugutoyo was the 22nd head of the [[Shimazu clan]], and the fifth [[Edo period]] lord of [[Satsuma han]].

The eldest son of [[Shimazu Yoshitaka]], he succeeded his father as lord of Satsuma when Yoshitaka was ordered by [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]] to step down in [[1721]]. He was then betrothed in [[1729]] to [[Takehime]], an adopted daughter of Shogun [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]], also at Yoshimune's orders. After she was formally adopted by Yoshimune, the two were married.

Tsugutoyo retired in [[1746]], in favor of his eldest son [[Shimazu Munenobu]]. Munenobu died shortly afterwards, in [[1749]], and was succeeded by his brother (Tsugutoyo's second son), [[Shimazu Shigetoshi]], who then died in [[1755]]. Tsugutoyo thus became a counselor for his grandson, [[Shimazu Shigehide]], who then became lord of Satsuma.

Tsugutoyo himself died in [[1760]], at the age of 60, in the Ninomaru palace at [[Kagoshima castle]]. He is buried in the Shimazu clan graveyard at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]], in Kagoshima, along with Takehime and two other wives (the birth mothers of Munenobu and Shigetoshi).

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|width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>'''[[Shimazu Yoshitaka]]'''
|width="35%"|'''Lord of [[Satsuma han]]'''<br> [[1721]]-[[1746]]
|width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Shimazu Munenobu]]'''
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==References==
*"[http://www.shuseikan.jp/toushu/toushu22.html Shimazu Tsugutoyo]," ''Satsuma Shimazu-ke no rekishi'', [[Shokoshuseikan|Shôkoshûseikan]] official website.
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%B3%B6%E6%B4%A5%E7%B6%99%E8%B1%8A-1080940 Shimazu Tsugutoyo]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'', Kodansha, 2009.

[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
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