Tokugawa Munetada

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

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 shogun. Munetada's wife was Tomohime (Akiko), the daughter of the imperial regent Ichijō Kaneka; she bore his eldest son, Shigemasa. Munetada also had a concubine by the name of Oyuka, who bore his sons Shigetomi, Harusada, Haruyuki, Kenzaburō, and his daughter Yasuhime (later, the wife of Shimazu Shigehide). His two other sons, Sennosuke and Kanejirō, were born by yet another concubine.

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

References

(Japanese) Nekhet's "World Nobility" page on the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa
(Japanese) Hitotsubashi genealogy

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Name	Tokugawa Munetada
Alternative names
Short description	Samurai
Date of birth	1721
Place of birth
Date of death	1765
Place of death

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