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*''Other Names'': 安田亀之助 ''(Yasuda Kamenosuke)''
*''Japanese'': [[徳川]]家達 ''(Tokugawa Iesato)''
Tokugawa Iesato was the designated heir of the last shogun, [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]], and succeeded him to become the first head of the [[Tokugawa clan]] following the fall of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].
Shortly after the [[Meiji Restoration]], he left [[Edo]] for the [[Matsudaira clan|Matsudaira]]/Tokugawa ancestral home of [[Shizuoka prefecture]].
In [[1877]], he traveled to England to study.
In May [[1910]], he was invited to a luncheon held in his honor at the newly-founded [[Japan Society (New York)|Japan Society]] in New York.<ref>''Japan Society: Celebrating a Century 1907-2007''. Japan Society, 2007. p16.</ref>
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==References==
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[[Category:Meiji Period]]
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