Tokugawa Ieyoshi
| Tokugawa Ieyoshi | |
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| 12th Tokugawa Shogun | |
| In office 1837–1853 |
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| Monarch | Emperor Ninkō Emperor Kōmei |
| Preceded by | Tokugawa Ienari |
| Succeeded by | Tokugawa Iesada |
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| Born | 22 June 1793 |
| Died | 27 July 1853 (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.
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[edit] Events of Ieyoshi's bakufu
Ieyoshi died in 1853. His grave is at the Tokugawa family mausoleum at Zōjō-ji in Shiba.
[edit] Eras of Ieyoshi's bakufu
The years in which Ieyoshi was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] External links
- National Archives of Japan: Illustrations of Road to Nikko, Tempo 14 (1843)
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| Preceded by Tokugawa Ienari |
Edo Shogun: Tokugawa Ieyoshi 1837-1853 |
Succeeded by Tokugawa Iesada |
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