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*''Born: [[1886]]''
*''Died: 1976''
*''Japanese'': [[徳川]]義親 ''(Tokugawa Yoshichika)''
[[Kazoku|Marquis]] [[Tokugawa Yoshichika]] was the founder of the [[Tokugawa Art Museum]]. He was the biological son of [[Matsudaira Shungaku]], last ''daimyô'' of [[Echizen han]], and the adopted son of [[Tokugawa Yoshikatsu]], the last ''daimyô'' of [[Owari han]]; Yoshichika succeeded Yoshikatsu to become head of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan|Owari branch]] of the [[Tokugawa clan]].
Educated at the [[Gakushuin|Gakushûin]] (Peers' School), he attended [[Tokyo University|Tokyo Imperial University]] as an undergraduate, where he researched forestry history, and then went on to pursue graduate studies in botany beginning in [[1911]]. He became a member of the [[House of Peers]] that same year.
He established the Tokugawa Institute for Biological Research (''Tokugawa Seibutsu Kenkyûjo'') in 1918, the Tokugawa Institute for the History of Forestry (''Tokugawa Rinseishi Kenkyûjo'') in 1923, and the Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation in 1931. In 1935, along with the Foundation, he worked to establish the Tokugawa Art Museum, on the grounds of the former site of the Owari Tokugawa [[daimyo yashiki|mansion]] in [[Nagoya]], donating to the new museum the Owari Tokugawa clan's collection of artworks and artifacts. An early exhibit, shown the year after the founding of the museum, included works of calligraphy by [[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]], [[Emperor Komei|Emperor Kômei]], [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], and Yoshichika's birth father & adopted father. The Shôwa Emperor visited the museum on August 3, 1937, and is said to have "congratulated Yoshichika on his accomplishment."<ref>Pitelka, 465.</ref>
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==References==
*Morgan Pitelka. "Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu." in ''A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture''. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 463-465.
[[Category:Nobility]]
*''Died: 1976''
*''Japanese'': [[徳川]]義親 ''(Tokugawa Yoshichika)''
[[Kazoku|Marquis]] [[Tokugawa Yoshichika]] was the founder of the [[Tokugawa Art Museum]]. He was the biological son of [[Matsudaira Shungaku]], last ''daimyô'' of [[Echizen han]], and the adopted son of [[Tokugawa Yoshikatsu]], the last ''daimyô'' of [[Owari han]]; Yoshichika succeeded Yoshikatsu to become head of the [[Owari Tokugawa clan|Owari branch]] of the [[Tokugawa clan]].
Educated at the [[Gakushuin|Gakushûin]] (Peers' School), he attended [[Tokyo University|Tokyo Imperial University]] as an undergraduate, where he researched forestry history, and then went on to pursue graduate studies in botany beginning in [[1911]]. He became a member of the [[House of Peers]] that same year.
He established the Tokugawa Institute for Biological Research (''Tokugawa Seibutsu Kenkyûjo'') in 1918, the Tokugawa Institute for the History of Forestry (''Tokugawa Rinseishi Kenkyûjo'') in 1923, and the Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation in 1931. In 1935, along with the Foundation, he worked to establish the Tokugawa Art Museum, on the grounds of the former site of the Owari Tokugawa [[daimyo yashiki|mansion]] in [[Nagoya]], donating to the new museum the Owari Tokugawa clan's collection of artworks and artifacts. An early exhibit, shown the year after the founding of the museum, included works of calligraphy by [[Emperor Go-Mizunoo]], [[Emperor Komei|Emperor Kômei]], [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], and Yoshichika's birth father & adopted father. The Shôwa Emperor visited the museum on August 3, 1937, and is said to have "congratulated Yoshichika on his accomplishment."<ref>Pitelka, 465.</ref>
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==References==
*Morgan Pitelka. "Art, Agency, and Networks in the Career of Tokugawa Ieyasu." in ''A Companion to Asian Art and Architecture''. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, 463-465.
[[Category:Nobility]]