Tsunenari Tokugawa

Tokugawa Tsunenari 徳川恆孝
Prince Tokugawa
Reign	18 February 1963 – present
Born	(1940-02-26) 26 February 1940
Issue	Tokugawa Iehiro 徳川家広

Tokugawa Tsunenari (徳川 恆孝) (also 徳川 恒孝; born 26 February 1940) is the present (18th generation) head of the main Tokugawa house. Members of his Tokugawa clan ruled Japan as Shoguns from 1603 to 1867. 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 (throughout which members of his Tokugawa clan ruled Japan as Shoguns) 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.

Ancestry

Family of Tsunenari Tokugawa

16. Matsudaira Yoshitatsu 8. Matsudaira Katamori 17. Komori Chiyo 4. Tsuneo Matsudaira 18. Kawamura Genhyō 9. Kawamura Naga 2. Ichirō Matsudaira 20. Nabeshima Naomasa 10. Nabeshima Naohiro 5. Nobuko Nabeshima 22. Hirohashi Taneyasu 11. Hirohashi Nagako 1. Tsunenari Tokugawa 24. Tokugawa Yoshiyori 12. Tokugawa Iesato 6. Iemasa Tokugawa 26. Konoe Tadafusa 13. Konoe Hiroko 27. Shimazu Mitsuko 3. Toyoko Tokugawa 28. Shimazu Hisamitsu 14. Shimazu Tadayoshi 29. Shimazu Chimoko 7. Naoko Shimazu 15. Yamazaki Sumako

External links

• Homepage of the Tokugawa Memorial Foundation