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*''Japanese'': [[徳川]] 昭武 ''(Tokugawa Akitake)''
Tokugawa Akitake was the final lord of [[Mito han]], before the [[abolition of the han]] in [[1871]]. A son of former lord of the domain [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], he was a younger brother to Nariaki's successor [[Tokugawa Yoshiatsu]], and younger half-brother to [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]].
Akitake served as head of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogunate's]] delegation to the [[1867 Paris World's Fair]] and was in France in [[1868]] when he received news of his brother Yoshiatsu falling deathly ill; he returned home to succeed Yoshiatsu (who had no sons/heirs) as head of the domain, arriving in Japan shortly after the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the Tokugawa shogunate]].
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==References==
*Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 201-204.
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{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="35%"|Preceded by<br>'''[[Tokugawa Yoshiatsu]]'''
|width="25%"|'''Lord of [[Mito han|Mito]]<br>[[1868]]-[[1871]]'''
|width="35%"|Succeeded by<br>'''None'''
|}
</center>
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]
Tokugawa Akitake was the final lord of [[Mito han]], before the [[abolition of the han]] in [[1871]]. A son of former lord of the domain [[Tokugawa Nariaki]], he was a younger brother to Nariaki's successor [[Tokugawa Yoshiatsu]], and younger half-brother to [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]].
Akitake served as head of the [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogunate's]] delegation to the [[1867 Paris World's Fair]] and was in France in [[1868]] when he received news of his brother Yoshiatsu falling deathly ill; he returned home to succeed Yoshiatsu (who had no sons/heirs) as head of the domain, arriving in Japan shortly after the [[Meiji Restoration|fall of the Tokugawa shogunate]].
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==References==
*Robert Hellyer, ''Defining Engagement'', Harvard University Press (2009), 201-204.
<center>
{| border="3" align="center"
|- align="center"
|width="35%"|Preceded by<br>'''[[Tokugawa Yoshiatsu]]'''
|width="25%"|'''Lord of [[Mito han|Mito]]<br>[[1868]]-[[1871]]'''
|width="35%"|Succeeded by<br>'''None'''
|}
</center>
[[Category:Samurai]]
[[Category:Bakumatsu]]
[[Category:Meiji Period]]