was a Japanese samurai of the mid-Edo period who was the founder of the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family, one of the

Gosankyō The were three branches of the Tokugawa clan of Japan. They were descended from the eighth of the fifteen Tokugawa shōguns, Yoshimune (1684–1751). Yoshimune established the ''Gosankyo'' to augment (or perhaps to replace) the '' Gosanke' ...

, the three lesser branches of the Tokugawa family. He was the fourth son of

Tokugawa Yoshimune was the eighth ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1716 until his abdication in 1745. He was the son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, the grandson of Tokugawa Yorinobu, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yoshimune is know ...

, the eighth shōgun with his concubine, Oume no Kata. He is the grandfather of

Tokugawa Ienari Tokugawa Ienari (, 18 November 1773 – 22 March 1841) was the eleventh and longest-serving ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who held office from 1787 to 1837.Hall, John Whitney ''et al.'' (1991) ''Early Modern Japan'', p. 21./ref> ...

the eleventh shōgun, His child-hood name was "Kogoro" (小五郎) and when Oume died at 1721, he was raised by his grandmother, Joenin until her death 1726 and later he was raised by Okume no Kata, Yoshimune's concubine.

Family

* Father:

* Mother: Oume no Kata later Shinshin'in (1700–1721) *Adopted Mother: Okume no Kata later Kakuju-in (1697-1777) * Wife, Children, Concubines: ** Wife: Ichijo Akiko later Fushin'in *** Matsudaira Shigemasa ** Concubine: ??? *** Sennosuke *** Kanejirō ** Concubine: Oyuka no Kata ***

Matsudaira Shigetomi was the 12th ''daimyō'' of Fukui Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate in Echizen Province.Burks, Ardath W. (1985) ''The Modernizers: overseas students, foreign employees, and Meiji Japan'', p. 47 He ruled Fukui for 41 years, the long ...

*** Yasuhime (1747-1769) married Shimazu Shigehide *** Tokugawa Harusada (1751-1827) *** Kuroda Haruyuki (1753-1781) *** Kenzaburo

Ancestry

References

Nekhet's "World Nobility" page on the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa

1721 births 1765 deaths Tokugawa clan {{samurai-stub