Tokugawa Ieshige
Ieshige Tokugawa (徳 川 家 重; born January 28, 1712 Akasaka, Edo, † July 13, 1761 ), was from 1745 to 1760 the ninth shogun of the Edo period in Japan.
Journey
Tokugawa Ieshige, was the eldest son of Tokugawa Yoshimune enabled, the as yet Ōgosho mitregierte in the background after his resignation on November 24, 1745. His mother, who Osuma no kata (お 須磨 の 方), a subsidiary of Okubo Tadanao, gave birth to him in the metropolitan residence of the Kii Han in the Akasaka district. In childhood he was called Nagatomimaru (长 福 丸). His coming of age ceremony ( gempuku ) had the sickly from birth to 13 years old in 1725. As head of the family, he was lord of the Kii Han, with an income of 550,000 koku.
In contrast to his father at the office 34 - year-old was ill-suited to govern. Regarding his successor there had been a dispute because his younger brothers were obviously competent. He was also a strong stutterers. In later years succeeded Ooka Tadamitsu ( 1709-9. June 1760 ), the government to dominate totally, as he pretended to be the only to understand the pronunciation Ieshiges and to make known his will. Ieshige was not really interested in the administration. In the first year all counselors of his father were replaced except the Taïro Hotta. The Kyoho reforms of Yoshimune were not continued. Tax increases that the crop failure in 1755 caused much with, led to frequent uprisings.
The so-called Hōreki incident in 1757, the Bakufu and the Kampaku to the teachings of the Takenouchi Shikibu, who expounded the teaching of Chu -hsi and wanted to merge with the Shinto disturbed. He was therefore imprisons to 1758, then banished from the capital. Likewise, 17 were Hofadlige ( kuge ) demoted and executed or exiled.
Ieshige took effect on June 25, 1760, two weeks after the death Ōokas, in favor of his son Ieharu and died in July of the following year. His grave is located in the Zōjō -ji ( Shiba ); him the name Junshin -in was posthumously awarded. From the court of the deceased was, as usual, the real first court rank and title of Grand Chancellor.
His remains were exhumed in 1958 and studied scientifically until 1960. It turned out that he had blood group A and deformed teeth.
Family
The descendants of his younger brothers were two of the three secondary lines ( Go- Sankyo ) of the Tokugawa house:
- Tokugawa Munetake ( 1715-71 ), the progenitor of the Tayasu
- Tokugawa Munenobu ( 1721-64 ), the progenitor of the Hitotsubashi
His second son
- Tokugawa Shigeyoshi founded the Shimizu- branch
His principal wife was the Nami -no- miya, daughter of Imperial Prince Fushimi -no- miya Kuninaga (伏 见 宫 邦 永 亲王). His second wife Oko (于 幸) who had come to the shogunalen court in the wake of the first, the mother of his son and successor was Ieharu. A third woman was the Anjo - in (安祥 院) from the house of Miura. He also adopted an imperial princess.
Art, literature and sources
Ieshige was an excellent Shogi player and wrote a book about it.
- Ramming, Martin ( ed.); Japan Guide; , Berlin 1941
- Berend Wispelwey (ed.): Japanese Biographical Archive; Munich 2007, ISBN 3-598-34014-1, Fiche 386