was a Japanese
court noble of the late
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional ''daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...
. He held the
regent
A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state ''pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy, ...
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.
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
1789 births
1868 deaths
Fujiwara clan
Takatsukasa family
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