, also known as Mito Yorifusa, was a Japanese ''

daimyō were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and n ...

'' of the early

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 ...

Biography

Known in his childhood as Tsuruchiyomaru (鶴千代丸), he was the eleventh son of

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow ...

, the first Tokugawa shogun with his concubine, Kageyama-dono later adopted as

Okaji no Kata (December 7, 1578September 17, 1642) or Lady Okaji, was a Japanese noble lady and aristocrat who lived during the Sengoku period and at the beginning of Edo period. She was the founder of Eishō-ji temple in Kamakura and was also a concubine of ...

's son after his younger sister, Ichihime died. Yorifusa was first

enfeoffed In the Middle Ages, especially under the European feudal system, feoffment or enfeoffment was the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service. This mechanism was later used to avoid restrictions on the passage of ti ...

in the Shimotsuma domain (100,000 ''koku'') from 1606 to 1609, before being transferred to

Mito Mito may refer to: Places *Mito, Ibaraki, capital city of Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan *Mito, Aichi, a Japanese town *Mito, Shimane, a Japanese town * Mitō, Yamaguchi, a Japanese town * Mito District, a district in the province of Concepción, Per ...

(

Hitachi Province was an old provinces of Japan, old province of Japan in the area of Ibaraki Prefecture.Louis Frédéric, Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Hitachi fudoki''" in . It was sometimes called . Hitachi Province bordered on Shimōsa Province, S ...

, 350,000 ''koku'') in 1609, thereby founding the Mito branch of the Tokugawa house (the junior branch of the

gosanke The , also called simply , or even , were the most noble three branches of the Tokugawa clan of Japan: Owari, Kii, and Mito, all of which were descended from clan founder Tokugawa Ieyasu's three youngest sons, Yoshinao, Yorinobu, and Yorifusa ...

). A holder of the junior 3rd court rank (''jusanmi''), Yorifusa held the title of ''chūnagon'' (middle counselor), both of which he received in 1627.

Family

* Father:

* Mother: Kageyama-dono (1580–1653) later Yoju-in * Adopted Mother:

* Wife, Concubine, Children: ** Concubine: Hisa later Kyushoin (1604-1662), daughter of Tani Shigenori ***

Matsudaira Yorishige was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the early Edo period, who ruled the Takamatsu Domain. Yorishige was the first son of Tokugawa Yorifusa, and Tokugawa Mitsukuni was the third son of Tokugawa Yorifusa, the first Tokugawa ''daimyō'' of Mito Domain ...

***

Tokugawa Mitsukuni , also known as , was a Japanese daimyo who was known for his influence in the politics of the early Edo period. He was the third son of Tokugawa Yorifusa (who in turn was the eleventh son of Tokugawa Ieyasu) and succeeded him, becoming the sec ...

** Concubine: Okatsu no Kata later Enrin-in, daughter of Sasaki Masakatsu *** Michiko (1624-1664) betrothed to Matsudono Michiaki *** Kamemaru (1625-1628) *** Man (1627-1689) married Ota Sukemasa *** Kiku (1628-1706) married Matsudaira Yasuhiro *** Matsudaira Yoritomo (1629-1693) *** Sen (1635-1681) married Maki Kagenobu *** Matsu *** Matsudaira Yorikatsu (1630-1697) ** Concubine: Oya no Kata later Jokoin *** Kiihime (1627-1631) *** Kohime (1628-1717) *** Matsudaira Yoritaka (1629-1707) *** Matsudaira Yoriyuki (1631-1717) *** Ritsu (1632-1711) married Yamanobe Yoshikata *** Suzuki Shigeyoshi (1634-1668) ** Concubine: Kitsuke later Gyokuho-in *** Oohime (1627-1656) married

Maeda Mitsutaka was an early-Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 3rd ''daimyō'' of Kaga Domain in the Hokuriku region of Japan. He was the 4th hereditary chieftain of the Kanazawa Maeda clan. His courtesy titles were ''Chikuzen-no-kami'' and ''Sakonoe-shosho ...

** Concubine: Tama later Shonshin'in daughter of Banzo Sokenjikyozen *** Matsudaira Yoritoshi (1630-1674) ** Concubine: Aii later Tsuji'in daughter of Tanya Yorifusa *** Matsudaira Yoriyuki (1631-1664) *** Matsudaira Fusaji (1633-1682) ** Concubine: Toshi later Choshoin *** Furi (1633-1667) married Honda Masatoshi *** Take (1636-1637) *** Ume (1638-1697) married Utsunomiya Takatsuna ** Concubine: Nana later Shinje-in daughter of Oida Yasunao *** Inu (1634-1675) married

Hosokawa Tsunatoshi Hosokawa (typically ja, 細川, meaning "narrow river" or "little river") is a Japanese surname. People with the name include: *Bill Hosokawa (1915–2007), Japanese American author and journalist *Chieko Hosokawa (born 1929), a Japanese manga a ...

*** Ichi (1639-1690) married Sakai Tadaharu ** Concubine: Iku later Kashin-in daughter of Takano Kiyohyou *** Kuma (1649-1709) married Ito Tomotsugu

Ancestry

References

*Fukuda, Chizuru (2005). ''Oie-sōdō''. Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha. , - 1603 births 1661 deaths Lords of Mito Deified Japanese people {{Daimyo-stub