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*''Born: [[1824]]''
*''Died: [[1858]]/7/4''
*''Reign: [[1853]]-1858''
*''Japanese'': [[徳川]] 家定 ''(Tokugawa Iesada)''
Tokugawa Iesada was the 13th [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]]. His reign saw many of the key events of the [[Bakumatsu period]], including the coming of [[Commodore Perry]], the [[Convention of Kanagawa]], and the [[Harris Treaty]], and the beginnings of the factionalism and political tensions which would eventually [[Meiji Restoration|topple the shogunate]].
Iesada succeeded his father [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]] on [[1853]]/10/23 following Ieyoshi's death earlier that year.
After his first two wives each died, he married [[Atsu-hime]], a daughter of the [[Imaizumi clan|Imaizumi]] [[Shimazu clan]], on [[1856]]/12/18.<ref>''Kaiyô kokka Satsuma'' 海洋国家薩摩, Kagoshima: Shôkoshûseikan (2010), 58-59.</ref>
Iesada died two years later, on [[1858]]/7/4, having named [[Tokugawa Iemochi]], a son of [[Tokugawa Nariyuki]], lord of [[Wakayama han]] (who was in turn a son of former shogun [[Tokugawa Ienari]]), his successor. Despite efforts by [[Tokugawa Nariaki]] of [[Mito han]] and others to have Nariaki's son [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] named shogun, Iemochi successfully took the position, with the support of [[Ii Naosuke]], among others. (Yoshinobu would later succeed Iemochi, however.) Iesada was buried at the [[Tokugawa clan]] family temple of [[Kan'ei-ji]] in [[Edo]]; while a number of shogunal mausolea were lost to bombings in World War II, Iesada's is among those which survive.
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|width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>'''[[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]]'''
|width="35%"|'''Tokugawa Shogun'''<br> [[1853]]-[[1858]]
|width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Tokugawa Iemochi]]'''
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==References==
*Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.
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[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
*''Died: [[1858]]/7/4''
*''Reign: [[1853]]-1858''
*''Japanese'': [[徳川]] 家定 ''(Tokugawa Iesada)''
Tokugawa Iesada was the 13th [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]]. His reign saw many of the key events of the [[Bakumatsu period]], including the coming of [[Commodore Perry]], the [[Convention of Kanagawa]], and the [[Harris Treaty]], and the beginnings of the factionalism and political tensions which would eventually [[Meiji Restoration|topple the shogunate]].
Iesada succeeded his father [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]] on [[1853]]/10/23 following Ieyoshi's death earlier that year.
After his first two wives each died, he married [[Atsu-hime]], a daughter of the [[Imaizumi clan|Imaizumi]] [[Shimazu clan]], on [[1856]]/12/18.<ref>''Kaiyô kokka Satsuma'' 海洋国家薩摩, Kagoshima: Shôkoshûseikan (2010), 58-59.</ref>
Iesada died two years later, on [[1858]]/7/4, having named [[Tokugawa Iemochi]], a son of [[Tokugawa Nariyuki]], lord of [[Wakayama han]] (who was in turn a son of former shogun [[Tokugawa Ienari]]), his successor. Despite efforts by [[Tokugawa Nariaki]] of [[Mito han]] and others to have Nariaki's son [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] named shogun, Iemochi successfully took the position, with the support of [[Ii Naosuke]], among others. (Yoshinobu would later succeed Iemochi, however.) Iesada was buried at the [[Tokugawa clan]] family temple of [[Kan'ei-ji]] in [[Edo]]; while a number of shogunal mausolea were lost to bombings in World War II, Iesada's is among those which survive.
<center>
{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>'''[[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]]'''
|width="35%"|'''Tokugawa Shogun'''<br> [[1853]]-[[1858]]
|width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Tokugawa Iemochi]]'''
|}
</center>
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==References==
*Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.
<references/>
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]