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[[File:Ieyoshi.JPG|right|thumb|400px|Ieyoshi's grave at [[Zojo-ji|Zôjô-ji]] in Tokyo]]
*''Born: [[1793]]''
*''Born: [[1793]]''
*''Died: [[1853]]/6/22''
*''Died: [[1853]]/6/22''
*''Reign: [[1837]]-1853''
*''Reign: [[1837]]-1853''
*''Titles: Sadaijin, Dajô daijin (posthumous)''
*''Childhood Name'': 敏次郎 ''(Toshijirô)''
*''Posthumous Name'': 慎徳院 ''(Shintoku-in)''
*''Japanese'': [[徳川]] 家慶 ''(Tokugawa Ieyoshi)''
*''Japanese'': [[徳川]] 家慶 ''(Tokugawa Ieyoshi)''
Tokugawa Ieyoshi was the 12th [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]].
Tokugawa Ieyoshi was the 12th [[Tokugawa shogunate|Tokugawa shogun]].
The only surviving son of [[Tokugawa Ienari]] not adopted away into another samurai family, he succeeded his father as shogun on [[1837]]/9/2 following Ienari's abdication.
The second son of [[Tokugawa Ienari]], and the only surviving son not adopted away into another samurai family, he succeeded his father as shogun on [[1837]]/9/2 following Ienari's abdication. His reign saw the [[Tenpo Reforms|Tenpô Reforms]] of [[Mizuno Tadakuni]], and the beginnings of the [[Bakumatsu period]] and foreign policy efforts by [[Abe Masahiro]].
Ieyoshi was the last shogun to visit [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]], doing so in [[1841]].
Ieyoshi was the last shogun to visit [[Nikko Toshogu|Nikkô Tôshôgû]], doing so in [[1841]].
Ieyoshi fell ill shortly before the arrival of [[Commodore Perry]] to [[Uraga]] in the 6th month of [[1853]], and died on 1853/6/22, shortly after Perry's departure (while Perry was in [[Ryukyu Kingdom|Ryûkyû]]). Several months later, Ieyoshi was succeeded by his son [[Tokugawa Iesada]].
The imperial court posthumously granted him the title of Dajô Daijin, the Senior First Rank, and the posthumous Buddhist name Shintokuin.
==References==
==References==
*Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.
*Evelyn Rawski, ''Early Modern China and Northeast Asia: Cross-Border Perspectives'', Cambridge University Press (2015), 161.
*"Shiryôhen kaidai shiryô honkoku: Edo dachi ni tsuki oose watashi dome" 「史料編解題・史料翻刻「江戸立二付仰渡留」」, in Kamiya Nobuyuki 紙屋敦之 (ed.), ''Kinsei Nihon ni okeru gaikoku shisetsu to shakai hen'yô 3: taikun gaikô kaitai wo ou'' 『近世日本における外国使節と社会変容（３）－大君外交解体を追う－』, Tokyo: Waseda University (2009), p42n1.
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