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Tokugawa Ietsugu was the seventh [[shogun]], reigning from [[1713]] until his death in [[1716]]. He was the fourth son of the previous shogun, [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], but was predeceased by all of his brothers, and thus became the one to succeed their father as shogun.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.</ref> | Tokugawa Ietsugu was the seventh [[shogun]], reigning from [[1713]] until his death in [[1716]]. He was the fourth son of the previous shogun, [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], but was predeceased by all of his brothers, and thus became the one to succeed their father as shogun.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.</ref> | ||
| − | Ietsugu was a very young child for the duration of his brief rule. | + | Ietsugu was a very young child for the duration of his brief rule. He was betrothed at the age of seven, in [[1715]], to [[Yasunomiya Yoshiko]], the two-year-old daughter of [[Emperor Reigen]], but died the following year, before the two were wed.<ref>Watanabe Hiroshi, ''A History of Japanese Political Thought, 1600-1901'', International House of Japan (2012), 153-154.</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 19:17, 8 March 2017
Tokugawa Ietsugu was the seventh shogun, reigning from 1713 until his death in 1716. He was the fourth son of the previous shogun, Tokugawa Ienobu, but was predeceased by all of his brothers, and thus became the one to succeed their father as shogun.[1]
Ietsugu was a very young child for the duration of his brief rule. He was betrothed at the age of seven, in 1715, to Yasunomiya Yoshiko, the two-year-old daughter of Emperor Reigen, but died the following year, before the two were wed.[2]
| Preceded by: Tokugawa Ienobu |
Tokugawa Shogunate 1713-1716 |
Succeeded by: Tokugawa Yoshimune |
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n25.
- Robert Hellyer, Defining Engagement, Harvard University Press (2009), 62.
