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Tokugawa Iemochi was the 14th shogun of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].  

Tokugawa Iemochi was the 14th shogun of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]].  

He was born in the Kishû Tokugawa residence in Edo in [[1846]], and became the head of the [[Kishu Tokugawa clan|Kishû Tokugawa clan]] at age four.

He was born in the [[Kishu Tokugawa Edo mansion|Kishû Tokugawa residence in Edo]] in [[1846]], and became the head of the [[Kishu Tokugawa clan|Kishû Tokugawa clan]] at age four.

There was a faction that supported [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] as successor to the shogun [[Tokugawa Iesada|Iesada]], but when Iesada died in [[1858]], the 12-year-old Iemochi became the 14th Tokugawa Shogun by the recommendation of [[Ii Naosuke]]. This was during the [[Bakumatsu period]], and the shogunate was facing both domestic troubles and foreign pressures. The shogunate pursued marriage between the Tokugawa line and the Imperial court, a policy known as ''[[kobu gattai|kôbu gattai]]'' ("union of court and military"), in the hopes of appeasing the ''sonnô jôi'' ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians") extremists.

There was a faction that supported [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] as successor to the shogun [[Tokugawa Iesada|Iesada]], but when Iesada died in [[1858]], the 12-year-old Iemochi became the 14th Tokugawa Shogun by the recommendation of [[Ii Naosuke]]. This was during the [[Bakumatsu period]], and the shogunate was facing both domestic troubles and foreign pressures. The shogunate pursued marriage between the Tokugawa line and the Imperial court, a policy known as ''[[kobu gattai|kôbu gattai]]'' ("union of court and military"), in the hopes of appeasing the ''sonnô jôi'' ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians") extremists.