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*''Japanese'': 紀州徳川家 ''(Kishuu Tokugawa ke)''

*''Japanese'': 紀州徳川家 ''(Kishuu Tokugawa ke)''

The Tokugawa of [[Kii province]] were one of the ''[[Gosanke]]'', the three branch families of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Tokugawa Ieyasu's]] own [[Tokugawa clan|lineage]], and the highest ranking samurai families below that Tokugawa main line. Based at the 550,000 ''[[koku]]'' [[han|domain]] of [[Wakayama han|Wakayama]] in Kii province, the Kishû Tokugawa were descended from Ieyasu's 10th son [[Tokugawa Yorinobu]]. The eighth shogun, [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]], was a member of the Kishû line.

The Tokugawa of [[Kii province]] were one of the ''[[Gosanke]]'', the three branch families of [[Tokugawa Ieyasu|Tokugawa Ieyasu's]] own [[Tokugawa clan|lineage]], and the highest ranking samurai families below that Tokugawa main line. Based at the 550,000 ''[[koku]]'' [[han|domain]] of [[Wakayama han|Wakayama]] in Kii province, the Kishû Tokugawa were descended from Ieyasu's 10th son [[Tokugawa Yorinobu]]. The eighth shogun, [[Tokugawa Yoshimune]], and the 14th shogun [[Tokugawa Iemochi]], were both heads of the Kishû family and lords of Wakayama before becoming shogun.

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==References==

==References==

*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 286n120.  

*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 286n120.  

[[Category:Clans]]

[[Category:Clans]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]

[[Category:Edo Period]]