daimyō
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and no ...
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Edo period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
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Mito Domain
was a Japanese domain of the Edo period. It was associated with Hitachi Province in modern-day Ibaraki Prefecture. He presented the ''
Dai Nihonshi
The ''Dai Nihonshi'' (大日本史), literally ''History of Great Japan'', is a book on the history of Japan written in Classical Chinese. It was begun in the 17th century and was completed by 1715 by Tokugawa Mitsukuni, the head of the Mito b ...
'', a historical record of Japan, to the Imperial Court.
The eldest son of Tokugawa Harumori, his childhood name was Tsuruchiyo (鶴千代).
Family
* Father: Tokugawa Harumori (1751–1805)
* Mother: Yayohime, daughter of Ichijo Michika
* Wife: Manhime, daughter of Tokugawa Shigenori of Kishu Domain
* Concubines:
** Jose'in
** Shimada-dono
** Toyama-dono
* Children:
** Kashiwahime by Manhime
** Yasuhime by Manhime
** Tokugawa Narinobu (1797-1829) by Jose'in
** Juko (1796-1844) married Nijo Narinobu by Shimada
** Tadahime married Matsudaira Yoshitatsu of
Takasu Domain
The was a Japanese Han (Japan), domain located in Mino Province (present-day Kaizu, Gifu). For most of its history, it was ruled by the Takasu-Matsudaira, a branch of the Tokugawa clan of Owari Domain.
Matsudaira Katamori, Matsudaira Sadaaki, To ...
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Takatsukasa Masamichi
was a Japanese court noble of the late Edo period. He held the regent position of kampaku from 1823–1856.
Biography
Masamichi was born the son of regent Takatsukasa Masahiro.
He served as kampaku from 1823–1856. In 1856, at the Ansei P ...
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Tokugawa Nariaki
Tokugawa Nariaki (徳川 斉昭, April 4, 1800 – September 29, 1860) was a Japanese ''daimyō'' who ruled the Mito Domain (now Ibaraki Prefecture) and contributed to the rise of nationalism and the Meiji Restoration.
Biography
Clan leader ...