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* ''Birth: [[1846]]''
* ''Birth: [[1846]]''
* ''Death: [[1866]]''
* ''Death: [[1866]]''
* ''Titles: Jusanmi Sakonoe Chujo,Shonii Gondainagon, Naidaijin, Ukonoe Taisho, Seii Taishogun, Juichii, Udaijin, Zoshoichii Dajodaijin ''
* ''Titles: Sakonoe Chûjô, Gondainagon, Naidaijin, Ukonoe Taishô, Seii Taishôgun, Udaijin, Dajô daijin ''
* ''Childhood Names'': 菊千代 ''(Kikuchiyo)'', 慶福 ''(Yoshitomi)''
* ''Childhood Names'': 菊千代 ''(Kikuchiyo)'', 慶福 ''(Yoshitomi)''
* ''Japanese'': [[徳川]]家茂 ''(Tokugawa Iemochi)''
* ''Japanese'': [[徳川]]家茂 ''(Tokugawa Iemochi)''
He was born in the [[Kishu Tokugawa Edo mansion|Kishû Tokugawa residence in Edo]] in [[1846]], and became the head of the [[Kishu Tokugawa clan|Kishû Tokugawa clan]] at age four.
He was born in the [[Kishu Tokugawa Edo mansion|Kishû Tokugawa residence in Edo]] in [[1846]], and became the head of the [[Kishu Tokugawa clan|Kishû Tokugawa clan]] at age four.
At the time of his ''[[genpuku]]'' in [[1851]], Kikuchiyo was granted a character from the name of Shogun [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]] and took on the name Yoshitomi; at that same time, he was elevated to the Junior Third Rank and granted the title of Sakonoe Chûjô.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 327.</ref>
There was a faction that supported [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] as successor to the shogun [[Tokugawa Iesada|Iesada]], but when Iesada died in [[1858]], the 12-year-old Iemochi became the 14th Tokugawa Shogun by the recommendation of [[Ii Naosuke]]. This was during the [[Bakumatsu period]], and the shogunate was facing both domestic troubles and foreign pressures. The shogunate pursued marriage between the Tokugawa line and the Imperial court, a policy known as ''[[kobu gattai|kôbu gattai]]'' ("union of court and military"), in the hopes of appeasing the ''sonnô jôi'' ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians") extremists.
There was a faction that supported [[Tokugawa Yoshinobu]] as successor to the shogun [[Tokugawa Iesada|Iesada]], but when Iesada died in [[1858]], the 12-year-old Iemochi became the 14th Tokugawa Shogun by the recommendation of [[Ii Naosuke]]. This was during the [[Bakumatsu period]], and the shogunate was facing both domestic troubles and foreign pressures. The shogunate pursued marriage between the Tokugawa line and the Imperial court, a policy known as ''[[kobu gattai|kôbu gattai]]'' ("union of court and military"), in the hopes of appeasing the ''sonnô jôi'' ("Revere the Emperor, Expel the Barbarians") extremists.
