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The Tokugawa surname was not granted to all of the sons of the shōgun or the heads of the six main Tokugawa branches. Only the inheritor received the Tokugawa name, while all of his siblings would receive the Matsudaira surname. For example, the last shōgun Tokugawa Yoshinobu was not the firstborn heir of his father (Tokugawa Nariaki of Mito ...
The Tokugawa lords of Owari Domain had the largest number of mansions (尾張藩邸 Owari Han-tei) and owned the largest number of acres across Japan as the senior branch of the Tokugawa clan during the feudal Edo period.
The Four Heavenly Kings of the Tokugawa (徳川四天王, Tokugawa-shitennō) is a Japanese sobriquet describing four highly effective samurai generals who fought on behalf of Tokugawa Ieyasu in Sengoku period. They were famous during their lifetimes as the four most fiercely loyal vassals of the Tokugawa clan in the early Edo period. [1]
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.
The Koishikawa-Kōrakuen was constructed in 1629 by Tokugawa Yorifusa, the 11th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu and daimyō of Mito Domain.It was later renovated by his son, Tokugawa Mitsukuni who named it "Korakuen" with the advice of the Ming Confucian scholar Zhu Zhiyu and inspired by descriptions of Yueyang Tower in Chinese literature and poetry. [3]
In 1931, Tokugawa Yoshichika (1886-1976), the 19th head of the Tokugawa family, decided that "the time had come to present the property to the community", and donated the land of 23,000 m2 and buildings to the City of Nagoya. Included in the donation were family treasures and the establishment of the Owari Tokugawa Reimeikai Foundation.
Tokugawa clan, 1603-1704 (shinpan) [1] 1: Tokugawa Yoshinao (徳川義直) 1603–1607: Uhōe-no-kami (右兵衛督) Lower 4th (従四位下) 250,000 koku: 9th son of Tokugawa Ieyasu 2: Tokugawa Tadanaga (徳川忠長) 1618–1624: Gon-Chūnagon (権中納言) Third (従三位) 238,000 koku: 3rd son of Tokugawa Hidetada: 3: Tokugawa Tsunashige ...