Count Count (feminine: countess) is a historical title of nobility in certain European countries, varying in relative status, generally of middling rank in the hierarchy of nobility. Pine, L. G. ''Titles: How the King Became His Majesty''. New York: ...

was a Japanese samurai of the late

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 ...

who became a government official in the Meiji, Taishō, and Shōwa eras. Younger brother of

Tokugawa Iesato Prince was the first head of the Tokugawa clan after the overthrow of the Tokugawa bakufu, and a significant figure in Japanese politics and diplomacy during the Meiji, Taishō and early Shōwa period Japan. When Prince Tokugawa travelled to ...

. His childhood name was Bannosuke (群之助). Served as a member of the House of Peers and the Board of Trustees of

Gakushūin The or Peers School (Gakushūin School Corporation), initially known as Gakushūjo, is a Japanese educational institution in Tokyo, originally established to educate the children of Japan's nobility. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2002)"Gakushū-i ...

. In the pre-1945 nobility, he held the rank of count.

Family

* Father:

Tokugawa Yoshiyori was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. Son of the 3rd generation Tayasu family head, Narimasa, he was head of the Tayasu house twice: in 1839–1863 and 1868–1876. He went to Shizuoka Domain in 1868, and served as the guardian of his s ...

* Mother: Takai Takeko * Wives: ** Kyoko, Daughter of 15th shōgun Yoshinobu ** Shimazu Tomoko, Daughter of

Shimazu Tadayoshi (2nd) was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the late Edo period, who ruled the Satsuma Domain as its 12th and last ''daimyō'' until 1871. He succeeded his father, Hisamitsu, as the head of the Shimazu family in 1887. In 1897, he fell ill and died, and was s ...

* Children: ** Sumiko married Naoyoshi Mizoguchi by Kyoko ** Tokiko married Tsuchiya Kennao by Kyoko ** Tsuyako married Tachibana Kantoku by Kyoko ** Shuko married Tokugawa Takesada of Matsudo-Tokugawa Family by Kyoko **

Satonari Tokugawa was the 10th head of the Tayasu branch of the Tokugawa clan. The son of Tokugawa Satotaka, he was a graduate of Tokyo Imperial University's engineering college. He held the rank of captain in the Imperial Japanese Navy prior to World War II, and ...

by Tomoko ** Keiko married Okubo Kan’ichi by Tomoko

References

1865 births 1941 deaths Kazoku Members of the House of Peers (Japan) Samurai Tokugawa clan {{samurai-stub