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− | *''Born: '' | + | [[File:Ienobu.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Grave of Tokugawa Ienobu at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]]]] |
| + | *''Born: [[1662]]/4/25'' |
| *''Died: [[1712]]/10/14'' | | *''Died: [[1712]]/10/14'' |
| *''Shogun: [[1709]]-1712'' | | *''Shogun: [[1709]]-1712'' |
− | *''Other Names: Bunshô-byô, Tsunatoyo'' | + | *''Other Names'': 文昭院 ''(Bunshô-in)'', 徳川綱豊 ''(Tokugawa Tsunatoyo)'', 虎松 ''(Toramatsu)'' |
| *''Japanese'': [[徳川]]家宣 ''(Tokugawa Ienobu)'' | | *''Japanese'': [[徳川]]家宣 ''(Tokugawa Ienobu)'' |
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| Tokugawa Ienobu was the sixth [[shogun]] of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. His reign, lasting from [[1709]] to [[1712]], saw numerous reforms guided by [[Confucian]] scholar [[Arai Hakuseki]]. [[Manabe Akifusa]] and [[Hayashi Nobuatsu]] were also prominent advisors to Ienobu. These included numerous steps taken both domestically and in foreign relations ritual to construct a Japanocentric regional order. | | Tokugawa Ienobu was the sixth [[shogun]] of the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]. His reign, lasting from [[1709]] to [[1712]], saw numerous reforms guided by [[Confucian]] scholar [[Arai Hakuseki]]. [[Manabe Akifusa]] and [[Hayashi Nobuatsu]] were also prominent advisors to Ienobu. These included numerous steps taken both domestically and in foreign relations ritual to construct a Japanocentric regional order. |
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− | He was named shogunal heir in [[1704]], and was officially invested as shogun by the emperor in 1709/5/1 | + | ==Life and Career== |
| + | Ienobu was born Toramatsu, the eldest son of [[Tokugawa Tsunashige]] (lord of [[Kofu han|Kôfu han]]) and [[Ohora-no-kata]] (aka Chôshôin). He was later adopted by his uncle, Shogun [[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]]. He was named shogunal heir in [[1704]], and was officially invested as shogun by the emperor on 1709/5/1, changing his name from Tokugawa Tsunatoyo to Ienobu at some point around this time. |
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− | Ienobu repromulgated the ''[[buke shohatto]]'' in [[1710]], the third time these rules for military houses had been issued. | + | Ienobu repromulgated the ''[[buke shohatto]]'' in [[1710]], the third time these rules for military houses had been issued. He also abolished Tsunayoshi's ''[[Shorui Awaremi no Rei|shôrui awaremi no rei]]'' (kindness to animals laws). |
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− | Ienobu died in 1712. His son [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]] was named Shogun the following year. Ienobu's grave at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] is today among the best preserved of the shogunal tombs, and provides some indication of the likely style and construction of those shogunal tombs which are no longer extant today.
| + | He had his first son by Okomu no kata, also known as [[Hoshin-in|Hôshin-in]], but the boy, who was named Iechiyo, died in infancy, two months after being born.<ref>Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 287n143.; Cecilia Segawa Seigle, “Tokugawa Tsunayoshi and the Formation of Edo Castle Rituals of Giving,” in Martha Chaiklin (ed.), ''Mediated by Gifts: Politics and Society in Japan 1350-1850'', Brill (2017), 126.</ref> He later had two other concubines, [[Renjo-in|Renjô-in]] and [[Gekko-in|Gekkô-in]]. He had at least one son with Renjô-in who also died in infancy. Gekkô-in gave him his fourth son, [[Tokugawa Ietsugu]], who eventually succeeded him as shogun. |
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| + | Ienobu died in 1712. His son Tokugawa Ietsugu was named Shogun the following year. Ienobu's grave at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] is today among the best preserved of the shogunal tombs, and provides some indication of the likely style and construction of those shogunal tombs which are no longer extant today. |
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| + | |width="32%"|Preceded by:<br>'''[[Tokugawa Tsunayoshi]]''' |
| + | |width="35%"|'''Tokugawa Shogunate'''<br> [[1709]]-[[1712]] |
| + | |width="32%"|Succeeded by:<br>'''[[Tokugawa Ietsugu]]''' |
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| + | ==References== |
| + | *"[http://kotobank.jp/word/%E5%BE%B3%E5%B7%9D%E5%AE%B6%E5%AE%A3?dic=nihonjinmei Tokugawa Ienobu]," ''Nihon jinmei daijiten'' 日本人名大辞典, Kodansha 2009. |
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| [[Category:Edo Period]] | | [[Category:Edo Period]] |
| [[Category:Samurai]] | | [[Category:Samurai]] |