Tokugawa Ieyoshi

In this Japanese name, the family name is "Tokugawa".

Tokugawa Ieyoshi

12th Tokugawa Shogun
In office 1837–1853
Monarch	Emperor Ninkō Emperor Kōmei
Preceded by	Tokugawa Ienari
Succeeded by	Tokugawa Iesada
Personal details
Born	22 June 1793(1793-06-22)
Died	27 July 1853(1853-07-27) (aged 60)

Tokugawa Ieyoshi (徳川家慶, June 22, 1793–July 27, 1853; r.1837–1853) was the 12th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.^[1]

He was the second son of the 11th shogun, Tokugawa Ienari, and appointed Mizuno Tadakuni to conduct the Tenpo reform.

Shortly after the arrival of U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry, in 1853, whose purpose was to negotiate a treaty allowing American trade with Japan, Tokugawa Ieyoshi died, and was succeeded by his third son Tokugawa Iesada.^[2] The following year the Tokugawa shogunate was forced to accept the American demands after signing the Convention of Kanagawa.

1 Events of Ieyoshi's bakufu
2 Eras of Ieyoshi's bakufu
3 In popular culture
4 Notes
5 References
6 External links

Events of Ieyoshi's bakufu

1837 (Tenpō 7): Tokugawa Ieyoshi becomes the 12th shogun of the bakufu government.^[1]

Ieyoshi died in 1853. His grave is at the Tokugawa family mausoleum at Zōjō-ji in Shiba.

Eras of Ieyoshi's bakufu

The years in which Ieyoshi was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.

Tenpō (1830–1844)
Kōka (1844–1848)
Kaei (1848–1854)

In popular culture

Tokugawa Ieyoshi is a minor character in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," in which he is murdered by his mother, using poisoned chrysanthemum tea.

He is also a minor character in the first two Nemuri Kyoshiro made-for-TV specials starring Tamura Masakazu.

Notes

^ ^a ^b Hall, John Whitney et al. (1991). Early Modern Japan, p. 21.
^ The American naval expedition planners did have the forethought to incorporate reference material written by men whose published accounts of Japan were based on first-hand experience. J.W. Spaulding brought with him books by Japanologists Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Isaac Titsingh. -- Screech, T. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822, p.73.

References

Hall, John Whitney and Marius Jansen. (1991). Early Modern Japan: The Cambridge History of Japan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10-ISBN 0-521-22355-5; 13-ISBN 978-0-521-22355-3; OCLC 62064695
Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. 10-ISBN 0-700-71720-X; 13-ISBN 978-0-700-71720-0
Totman, Conrad. (1967). Politics in the Tokugawa bakufu, 1600-1843. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. OCLC 279623

External links

National Archives of Japan: Illustrations of Road to Nikko, Tempo 14 (1843)

Military offices
Preceded by Tokugawa Ienari	Edo Shogun: Tokugawa Ieyoshi 1837-1853	Succeeded by Tokugawa Iesada

Tokugawa Shogunate family tree

Ieyasu⁽¹⁾

Hidetada⁽²⁾

Yorinobu

Iemitsu⁽³⁾

Mitsusada

Ietsuna⁽⁴⁾

Tsunayoshi⁽⁵⁾

Tsunashige

Yoshimune⁽⁸⁾

Ienobu⁽⁶⁾

Ieshige⁽⁹⁾

Ietsugu⁽⁷⁾

Ieharu⁽¹⁰⁾

Ienari⁽¹¹⁾

Ieyoshi⁽¹²⁾

Iesada⁽¹³⁾

Iemochi⁽¹⁴⁾

Yoshinobu⁽¹⁵⁾

All Tokugawa shoguns claim descent from Ieyasu, who is recognized as the founder of this dynasty. The broken lines indicate adoptions within the shogunal clan.

Tokugawa Shogunate—Chronology, Dates, Paternity

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Name	Tokugawa, Ieyoshi
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Date of birth	June 22, 1793
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Date of death	July 27, 1853
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