, son of regent
Ichijō Akiyoshi
, son of Emperor Go-Yōzei and adopted son of regent Uchimoto, was a '' kugyō'' (court noble) of the Edo period (1603–1868) of Japan. He held the regent positions of kampaku in 1629 and from 1647 to 1651, and sesshō from 1629 to 1635 and i ...
, was a ''
kugyō
is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre- Meiji eras. The term generally referred to the and court officials and denoted a court rank between First Rank and Third Rank un ...
'' (court noble) of the
Edo period
The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...
(1603–1868) of
Japan
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. His wife was a daughter of
Ikeda Mitsumasa
was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the early Edo period. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003).html" ;"title="DF 18 of 80">"Ikeda" at ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 14 DF 18 of ...
, the founding father of Okayama Domain, and adopted daughter of shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu, and with her he had son Ichijō Kaneteru, Kaneteru. Unlike his father or his son Kaneteru, he did not hold any regent position, but served as Udaijin.
[this is why he is still a kugyō.]
Family
* Father:
Ichijo Akiyoshi
* Mother: Daughter of Nishinotoin Tokinao
* Wife: Seigen’in (1636-1717)
* Son:
Ichijo Kaneteru
References
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1633 births
1707 deaths
Fujiwara clan
Ichijō family
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