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Shigehide's concubines included [[Chima no kata]], eldest daughter of the court noble [[Tsutsumi Toshinaga]], whose direct descendants would include the famous [[Atsuhime]].<ref>Plaque at grave of Chima no kata, [[Shojoke-in|Shôjôke-in]], Teramachi-dôri, Kyoto.</ref> Shigehide's children included his successor as lord of Satsuma, Shimazu Narinobu ([[1774]]-[[1841]]), as well as three other sons who were adopted into other ''daimyô'' families and became lords of their own domains. These were [[Shimazu Masataka]] (lord of [[Nakatsu han]] in [[Buzen province]], adopted by [[Okudaira Masao]]), [[Shimazu Narihiro]] (lord of [[Fukuoka han]], adopted by [[Kuroda Narikiyo]]), and [[Shimazu Nobuyuki]] (lord of [[Hachinohe han]], adopted by [[Nanbu Nobumasa]]). Shigehide's daughter [[Kodai-in|Shige-hime]], meanwhile, was married into the [[Tokugawa clan]], becoming the chief wife of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienari]].<ref>''Kaiyô kokka Satsuma'' 海洋国家薩摩, Kagoshima: Shôkoshûseikan (2010), 58-59.</ref> After becoming father-in-law to the shogun, Shigehide requested and received special privileges when visiting [[Edo castle]], including having the way cleared for him of other people (including other ''daimyô'' and their retainers) as he made his way from the palanquin-dismounting place to the ''genkan'' (entrance foyer) of the ''honmaru'' palace.<ref>Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Edo jidai - shogun bushi tachi no jitsuzô'', Tokyo shoseki (2008), 70-71.</ref> For a time, his prominence was such that he was sometimes referred to as ''Takanawa geba shôgun'', or "the Shogun who dismounts at Takanawa," a reference to the [[Satsuma_Edo_mansion#Takanawa_Mansion|Shimazu clan's mansion]] in the Takanawa neighborhood of Edo.

Shigehide's concubines included [[Chima no kata]], eldest daughter of the court noble [[Tsutsumi Toshinaga]], whose direct descendants would include the famous [[Atsuhime]].<ref>Plaque at grave of Chima no kata, [[Shojoke-in|Shôjôke-in]], Teramachi-dôri, Kyoto.</ref> Shigehide's children included his successor as lord of Satsuma, Shimazu Narinobu ([[1774]]-[[1841]]), as well as three other sons who were adopted into other ''daimyô'' families and became lords of their own domains. These were [[Shimazu Masataka]] (lord of [[Nakatsu han]] in [[Buzen province]], adopted by [[Okudaira Masao]]), [[Shimazu Narihiro]] (lord of [[Fukuoka han]], adopted by [[Kuroda Narikiyo]]), and [[Shimazu Nobuyuki]] (lord of [[Hachinohe han]], adopted by [[Nanbu Nobumasa]]). Shigehide's daughter [[Kodai-in|Shige-hime]], meanwhile, was married into the [[Tokugawa clan]], becoming the chief wife of [[Shogun]] [[Tokugawa Ienari]].<ref>''Kaiyô kokka Satsuma'' 海洋国家薩摩, Kagoshima: Shôkoshûseikan (2010), 58-59.</ref> After becoming father-in-law to the shogun, Shigehide requested and received special privileges when visiting [[Edo castle]], including having the way cleared for him of other people (including other ''daimyô'' and their retainers) as he made his way from the palanquin-dismounting place to the ''genkan'' (entrance foyer) of the ''honmaru'' palace.<ref>Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Edo jidai - shogun bushi tachi no jitsuzô'', Tokyo shoseki (2008), 70-71.</ref> For a time, his prominence was such that he was sometimes referred to as ''Takanawa geba shôgun'', or "the Shogun who dismounts at Takanawa," a reference to the [[Satsuma_Edo_mansion#Takanawa_Mansion|Shimazu clan's mansion]] in the Takanawa neighborhood of Edo.

Shigehide is buried in the Shimazu clan cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in Kagoshima, alongside two of his wives, and his daughter [[Keihime]].<ref>Plaques on-site at Fukushô-ji.</ref>

Shigehide died in Edo on [[1833]]/1/15. Though he had wished to be buried at Zuisei-ji<!--瑞聖寺--> in Edo, Narioki ordered that his remains be returned to Kagoshima to be buried at the Shimazu clan cemetery at [[Fukusho-ji|Fukushô-ji]] in Kagoshima, alongside two of his wives, and his daughter [[Keihime]].<ref>Plaques on-site at Fukushô-ji.</ref> The burial and funeral ceremony was held at Fukushô-ji on 1833/4/8.<ref>''Honjin ni tomatta daimyô tachi'', 76.</ref>

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