, son of regent Yukiie, 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 ...

'' or Japanese 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 character ...

(1603–1868). He held a regent position sesshō in 1647. He married a daughter of second head of Echizen Domain

Matsudaira Tadanao was a Sengoku to early Edo period Japanese samurai, and the 2nd ''daimyō'' of Fukui Domain in Echizen Province. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"Matsudaira Tadanao"in ''Japan Encyclopedia'', p. 617] Biography Tadanao was born in Settsu P ...

. One of the couple's daughters married regent Kujō Kaneharu who they adopted as son, and their second and fifth daughters are consorts of third head of

Hiroshima Domain The was a domain of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan during the Edo period from 1601 to 1871. The Hiroshima Domain was based at Hiroshima Castle in Aki Province, in the modern city of Hiroshima, located in the Chūgoku region of the island of H ...

Asano Tsunaakira.

Family

*Father:

Kujō Yukiie , son of regent Kanetaka, was a ''kugyō'' or Japanese court noble of the Edo period (1603–1868). His given name was initially. He held a regent position kampaku from 1608 to 1612 and from 1619 to 1623. He married Toyotomi Sadako (1592–1658), ...

*Mother: Toyotomi Sadako (1592–1658), daughter of Toyotomi Hidekatsu and Asai Oeyo *Wife: Matsudaira Tsuruhime (1618–1671), daughter of

of Fukui Domain and Tokugawa Katsuhime (daughter of

Tokugawa Hidetada was the second ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623. He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate. Early life (1579–1593) Tokugawa Hidetada was bo ...

) *Children (all by Tsuruhime): ** Tokihime married Kujō Kaneharu ** Aihime (d. 1659) married Asano Tsunaakira ** Yasuhime (d. 1679) married Asano Tsunaakira ** Yoshihime married Jonnyo ** Umehime married Matsudaira Tsunakata

References

* Fujiwara clan Kujō family 1609 births 1647 deaths {{japan-noble-stub