Tokugawa Tsunenari
| Tokugawa Tsunenari 徳川恆孝 |
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| Reign | 18 February 1963 - present (48 years, 344 days) |
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| Tokugawa Iehiro 徳川家広 | |
| Born | 26 February 1940 |
Tokugawa Tsunenari (徳川 恆孝) (also 徳川 恒孝; born February 26, 1940) Present (18th generation) head of the main Tokugawa house. His great-grandfather by his birth family was the famed Matsudaira Katamori of Aizu. Tsunenari was active for many years in the shipping company Nippon Yūsen, and at present is the head of the nonprofit Tokugawa Foundation.
His son, Iehiro Tokugawa, is a University of Michigan-educated translator.
In 2007, Tsunenari published a book entitled Edo no idenshi (江戸の遺伝子), released in English in 2009 as "The Edo Inheritance," which seeks to counter the common belief among Japanese that the Edo period was like a dark age, when Japan, cut off from the world, fell behind. On the contrary, he argues, the roughly 250 years of peace and relative prosperity saw great economic reforms, the growth of a sophisticated urban culture, and the development of the most urbanized society on the planet.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "The Edo Inheritance by Tokugawa Tsunenari." International House of Japan. Accessed 25 May 2009.
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| Preceded by Tokugawa Iemasa |
Tokugawa family head 1963–present |
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