Tokugawa Yoshinao

• Born: 1600
• Died: 1650
• Sons: Tokugawa Mitsutomo
• Japanese: 徳川義直 (Tokugawa Yoshinao)

Yoshinao’s mother was a certain Okane. He was given his late elder brother Tadayoshi's Owari fief and an income of 601,000 koku. He became the head of the Owari Tokugawa, one of the three gosankyô houses established by Ieyasu to provide heirs to the main line should the latter require one. Like his two younger brothers, Yorinobu and Yorifusa, Yoshinao enjoyed his father’s favor.

References

• Initial text from Sengoku Biographical Dictionary (Samurai-Archives.com) FWSeal & CEWest, 2005