Tokugawa Tsunashige

• Born: 1644
• Died: 1678
• Japanese: 徳川綱重 (Tokugawa Tsunashige)

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 koku domain in 1661.

His son Tokugawa Tsunatoyo (by his wife Ohora-no-kata, aka Chôshôin) was adopted by Tsunashige's brother 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.