was the 10th head of the Tayasu branch of the

Tokugawa clan The is a Japanese dynasty that was formerly a powerful ''daimyō'' family. They nominally descended from Emperor Seiwa (850–880) and were a branch of the Minamoto clan (Seiwa Genji) through the Matsudaira clan. The early history of this clan r ...

. The son of

Tokugawa Satotaka Count was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period who became a government official in the Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras. Younger brother of Tokugawa Iesato. His childhood name was Bannosuke (群之助). Served as a member of the House ...

, he was a graduate of

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's engineering college. He held the rank of captain in the

Imperial Japanese Navy The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: Shinjitai: ' 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or ''Nippon Kaigun'', 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender ...

prior to

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, and subsequently worked for K. Hattori.

Family

* Father:

* Mother: Shimazu Tomoko * Wife: Todo Motoko * Children: **

Munefusa Tokugawa is the 11th-generation head of the Tokugawa clan.Library of Congress authority file Tokugawa Munefusa nr2007-10575/ref> He is also the present head of the Tayasu branch of the Gosankyō. Early life Munefusa was born in London. He is a graduate ...

by Motoko ** Masako married Tokugawa Yoshiyasu of Owari-Tokugawa Family by Motoko ** Tokugawa Munemasa (1930-1999) by Motoko ** Tokugawa Munehiro by Motoko ** Sumiko married Hitoguchi Michiobu by Motoko ** Matsudaira Munetoshi (b.1940) by Motoko

References

1899 births 1961 deaths University of Tokyo alumni Imperial Japanese Navy officers Tokugawa clan Kazoku {{Japan-mil-bio-stub