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Tokugawa Ieharu 徳川 家治 (20 June 1737 – 17 September 1786) was the tenth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, who held office from 1760 to 1786. His childhood name was Takechiyo (竹千代).
This article is a list of shoguns that ruled Japan intermittently, as hereditary military dictators, [1] from the beginning of the Asuka period in 709 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate in 1868. [ a ]
Successive shoguns held the highest or near-highest court ranks, higher than most court nobles. [2] Working class district of the Edo period (Fukagawa Edo Museum) Working class district apartments (Fukagawa Edo Museum) Edo society refers to the society of Japan under the rule of the Tokugawa Shogunate during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.
The Tokugawa shoguns governed Japan in a feudal system, with each daimyō administering a han (feudal domain), although the country was still nominally organized as imperial provinces. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan experienced rapid economic growth and urbanization, which led to the rise of the merchant class and Ukiyo culture.
The Tokugawa's clan symbol, known in Japanese as a "mon", the "triple hollyhock" (although commonly, but mistakenly identified as "hollyhock", the "aoi" actually belongs to the birthwort family and translates as "wild ginger"—Asarum), has been a readily recognized icon in Japan, symbolizing in equal parts the Tokugawa clan and the last shogunate.
1760 (Hōreki 10): Shogun Ieshige resigns and his son, Ieharu, becomes the 10th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. [3]: 419 1762 (Hōreki 12): The Emperor Momozono abdicated in favor of his sister; [3]: 419 and he died shortly thereafter. 1763 (Hōreki 13): A merchant association handling Korean ginseng is founded in the Kanda district of Edo. [6]
The shogun presented Adams with two swords representing the authority of a samurai, and decreed that William Adams the pilot was dead and that Miura Anjin, a samurai, was born in his place.
They moved to Edo in 1590 following Tokugawa Ieyasu. They became Iga Dohshin Hiroshikiban (Igamono police to serve in the shogun's private quarters in Edo Castle while engaging in shinobi missions from time to time). [5] Under the 10th shogun, Shibata Jinshiro was transferred to work in the shogunate's Gakumonsho (shogunate university).