Tokugawa Ieshige

Born: 1711
Died: 1761
Reign as Shogun: 1745-1760
Japanese: 徳川家重 (Tokugawa Ieshige)

Tokugawa Ieshige was a younger son of Tokugawa Yoshimune, and succeeded Yoshimune to become the ninth Tokugawa shogun in 1745. He stepped down in favor of his eldest son, Tokugawa Ieharu, on 1760/5/13^[1], and died the following year.

Ieshige has been described by Conrad Totman as "a tragic wreck of a man, suffering from a crippled body, hopeless alcoholism, and a speech defect which left him incoherent."^[2]

He became shogun on 1745/11/2, after his father Yoshimune officially stepped down roughly a month earlier, on 9/25.

Ieshige was succeeded as shogun by his eldest son, Tokugawa Ieharu. A younger son, Tokugawa Shigeyoshi, founded the branch Shimizu Tokugawa clan.

Preceded by:
Tokugawa Yoshimune

Tokugawa Shogun
1745-1760

Succeeded by:
Tokugawa Ieharu

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References

James Lewis, “Beyond Sakoku: The Korean Envoy to Edo and the 1719 Diary of Shin Yu-Han,” Korea Journal 25:11 (1985), 40n15.

↑ Ieharu officially became shogun some months later, on 9/2.
↑ Conrad Totman, Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu, Harvard University Press (1967), 220.

[1] Ieharu officially became shogun some months later, on 9/2.

[2] Conrad Totman, Politics in the Tokugawa Bakufu, Harvard University Press (1967), 220.

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