Tokugawa Munetada

Summary

Tokugawa Munetada (徳川 宗尹, September 7, 1721 – January 13, 1765) was a Japanese samurai of the mid-Edo period who was the founder of the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family, one of the Gosankyō, the three lesser branches of the Tokugawa family. He was the fourth son of Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shōgun with his concubine, Oume no Kata. He is the grandfather of Tokugawa Ienari 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.

Tokugawa Munetada

Family edit

  • Father: Tokugawa Yoshimune
  • 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
    • Concubine: ???
      • Sennosuke
      • Kanejirō
    • Concubine: Oyuka no Kata
      • Matsudaira Shigetomi
      • Yasuhime (1747-1769) married Shimazu Shigehide
      • Tokugawa Harusada (1751-1827)
      • Kuroda Haruyuki (1753-1781)
      • Kenzaburo

Ancestry edit

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Preceded by
none
Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa family head
1746-1764
Succeeded by
Tokugawa Harusada

References edit

  1. ^ "Genealogy". Reichsarchiv (in Japanese). Retrieved 5 July 2018.
  • (in Japanese) Nekhet's "World Nobility" page on the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa
  • (in Japanese) Hitotsubashi genealogy[permanent dead link]