was a Japanese
court noble of the late
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 ...
. He held the
regent
In a monarchy, a regent () is a person appointed to govern a state because the actual monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge their powers and duties, or the throne is vacant and a new monarch has not yet been dete ...
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 Purge, he was prosecuted and later became a priest.
Family
He had a son,
Sukehiro, with the daughter of the seventh head of
Mito Domain Tokugawa Harutoshi. One of his daughters married the 13th head of
Tokushima Domain Hachisuka Narihiro.
References
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Japanese Wikipedia
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1789 births
1868 deaths
Fujiwara clan
Takatsukasa family
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