Tokugawa Tsunashige

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Tokugawa Tsunashige was the second son of Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu, and lord of Kôfu han in Kai province. He became lord of the 350,000[1] koku domain in 1661.

His son Tokugawa Tsunatoyo (by his wife Ohora-no-kata, aka Chôshôin) was adopted by Shogun Tokugawa Tsunayoshi as his heir in 1704, and became shogun in 1709, taking the name Tokugawa Ienobu.

References

  • Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 288n12.
  1. Hakuseki, 292n125.