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However, Atsu was not able to exercise the influence that had been hoped. Iesada died in the 7th month of [[1858]], naming as his heir the young lord of Kii.  Two months after her husband's death Atsu-hime retired and took the name Tenshô-in, and at the end of the year was given Third Degree rank. She remained living in Edo castle during the shogunate of Iemochi and that of Yoshinobu, who became shogun in 1866.

However, Atsu was not able to exercise the influence that had been hoped. Iesada died in the 7th month of [[1858]], naming as his heir the young lord of Kii.  Two months after her husband's death Atsu-hime retired and took the name Tenshô-in, and at the end of the year was given Third Degree rank. She remained living in Edo castle during the shogunate of Iemochi and that of Yoshinobu, who became shogun in 1866.

During this time, the Satsuma clan joined forces with the [[Choshu han|Chôshû clan]] in support of the imperial restoration against the shogunate, and events eventually erupted into the [[Boshin War]] ([[1868]]), ending with the overthrow of the shogunate. At the end of the war, Tenshô-in (Atsu), who was from Satsuma, and Seikan-In-no-Miya (静寛院宮) (formerly [[Kazu-no-Miya]] 和宮), the widow of Shogun Iemochi and the daughter of [[Emperor Ninko| Emperor Ninkô]], successfully interceded with the victors for the continuance of the Tokugawa family. After the fall of Edo Casle, Tenshô-in and the rest of the Tokugawa family were deprived of their rank.  After vacating Edo Castle at the age of 34 on 10d 4m 1868, she moved into the Hitotsubashi mansion and stayed there until the 28d 7m, then settling in the mansion of the Kii Tokugawa in the Akasaka (赤坂) district of Edo/Tokyo. She then moved to Ushigometoyama (牛込戸山) in Tokyo on 11d 8m 1870.  Yet in [[1872]], to better help supervise the raising and education of Yoshinobu's heir Yasuda Kamenosuke (田安亀之助) ([[Tokugawa Iesato]] 徳川家達), she moved back to Akasaka, settling in Fukuyoshi-chô (福吉町), where she remained until Iesato went to study abroad in England in [[1877]]. After that, she moved into the main Tokugawa residence in Sendagaya, in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Tenshôin suffered from Parkinson’s disease, which eventually took her life at the age of 49 in [[1883]]. Upon her death her rank was restored.  

During this time, the Satsuma clan joined forces with the [[Choshu han|Chôshû clan]] in support of the imperial restoration against the shogunate, and events eventually erupted into the [[Boshin War]] ([[1868]]), ending with the overthrow of the shogunate. At the end of the war, Tenshô-in (Atsu), who was from Satsuma, and Seikan-In-no-Miya (静寛院宮) (formerly [[Kazu-no-Miya]] 和宮), the widow of Shogun Iemochi and the daughter of [[Emperor Ninko| Emperor Ninkô]], successfully interceded with the victors for the continuance of the Tokugawa family. After the fall of Edo Casle, Tenshô-in and the rest of the Tokugawa family were deprived of their rank.  After vacating Edo Castle at the age of 34 on 10d 4m 1868, she moved into the Hitotsubashi mansion and stayed there until the 28d 7m, then settling in the mansion of the Kii Tokugawa in the Akasaka (赤坂) district of Edo/Tokyo. She then moved to Ushigometoyama (牛込戸山) in Tokyo on 11d 8m 1870.  Yet in [[1872]], to better help supervise the raising and education of Yoshinobu's heir Yasuda Kamenosuke (安田亀之助) ([[Tokugawa Iesato]] 徳川家達), she moved back to Akasaka, settling in Fukuyoshi-chô (福吉町), where she remained until Iesato went to study abroad in England in [[1877]]. After that, she moved into the main Tokugawa residence in Sendagaya, in the Shibuya district of Tokyo. Tenshôin suffered from Parkinson’s disease, which eventually took her life at the age of 49 in [[1883]]. Upon her death her rank was restored.