| Yoshiatsu married his first cousin, [[Takako joo|Takako (Ito-hime)]], an adoptive daughter of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]] and niece of Yoshiatsu's mother Yoshiko, in [[1853]].<ref>[[Anne Walthall]], "Nishimiya Hide: Turning Palace Arts into Marketable Skills," in Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan," Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 48.</ref> | | Yoshiatsu married his first cousin, [[Takako joo|Takako (Ito-hime)]], an adoptive daughter of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]] and niece of Yoshiatsu's mother Yoshiko, in [[1853]].<ref>[[Anne Walthall]], "Nishimiya Hide: Turning Palace Arts into Marketable Skills," in Walthall (ed.), ''The Human Tradition in Modern Japan," Scholarly Resources, Inc. (2002), 48.</ref> |
− | In [[1868]], while traveling to Mito, he contracted beriberi, and died of it upon his arrival in the domain, with no heir having been named. His younger brother, [[Tokugawa Akitake]], who had been studying in France, left for Japan, arriving after the [[Meiji Restoration|fall]] of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]]. | + | In [[1868]], while traveling to Mito, he contracted beriberi, and died of it upon his arrival in the domain, with no heir having been named. His younger brother, [[Tokugawa Akitake]], who had been studying in France, left for Japan, arriving to succeed him after the [[Meiji Restoration|fall]] of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|shogunate]]. |