was a court noble ('' kuge'') 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 characte ...

. Born to Nijō Haruyoshi and adopted by Takatsukasa Tadafuyu, he revived the lineage of the

Takatsukasa family is a Japanese aristocratic kin group. Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). ''Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon''; Papinot, (2003)"Nijō," ''Nobiliare du Japon'', p. 58 retrieved 2013-8-13. The Takatsukasa was a branch of t ...

. In 1606 he was appointed Kampaku, a regent position which he left two years later. In 1658 he died at age 92. With a daughter of the daimyō

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, Teruko, he had a son, Nobuhisa, and a daughter, Takako, who married

Tokugawa Iemitsu Tokugawa Iemitsu (徳川家光, August 12, 1604 – June 8, 1651) was the third ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa dynasty. He was the eldest son of Tokugawa Hidetada with Oeyo, and the grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Lady Kasuga was his wet nurse, who a ...

in 1623.

Genealogy

*Father: Nijō Haruyoshi *Mother:

Fushimi-no-miya Sadaatsu The is the oldest of the four shinnōke, branches of the Imperial Family of Japan which were eligible to succeed to the Chrysanthemum Throne in the event that the main line should die out. The Fushimi-no-miya was founded by Prince Yoshihito, t ...

**Wife: Sassa Teruko ***son: Takatsukasa Nobuhisa ***daughter: Takatsukasa Takako, married

**Concubine: Lady Shirakawa ***son: Matsuidara Nobuhira **Concubine: unknown name ***Daughter: unknown name

References

*https://web.archive.org/web/20181118084314/http://www.geocities.jp/kimkaz_labo/taka.html 1565 births 1658 deaths Fujiwara clan Takatsukasa family Nijō family {{japan-noble-stub