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Tokugawa Ietsugu was the seventh [[shogun]], reigning from [[1713]] until his death in [[1716]]. He was the fourth son of the previous shogun, [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], but was predeceased by all of his brothers, and thus became the one to succeed their father as shogun.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.</ref>
 
Tokugawa Ietsugu was the seventh [[shogun]], reigning from [[1713]] until his death in [[1716]]. He was the fourth son of the previous shogun, [[Tokugawa Ienobu]], but was predeceased by all of his brothers, and thus became the one to succeed their father as shogun.<ref>Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.</ref>
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Ietsugu was a very young child for the duration of his brief rule.
  
 
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Revision as of 05:40, 8 March 2017

The gates to Ietsugu's mausoleum at Zôjô-ji, in an 1880s photograph by Kusakabe Kinbei
  • Born: 1709
  • Died: 1716
  • Other Names: Nabematsu, Yûshô-in
  • Japanese: 徳川家継 (Tokugawa Ietsugu)

Tokugawa Ietsugu was the seventh shogun, reigning from 1713 until his death in 1716. He was the fourth son of the previous shogun, Tokugawa Ienobu, but was predeceased by all of his brothers, and thus became the one to succeed their father as shogun.[1]

Ietsugu was a very young child for the duration of his brief rule.

Preceded by:
Tokugawa Ienobu
Tokugawa Shogunate
1713-1716
Succeeded by:
Tokugawa Yoshimune

References

  • Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 311n25.
  • Robert Hellyer, Defining Engagement, Harvard University Press (2009), 62.
  1. Evelyn Rawski, Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives, Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.