was a Japanese ''

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'' of the early Edo period. Bronze statue of

Born under the name Nagatomimaru (長福丸), he was the 10th 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 fello ...

, by his concubine Kageyama-dono. On December 8, 1603, Yorinobu received the fief of Mito, then rated at 200,000 ''koku'', as his fief. Mito had formerly belonged to his older brother, Takeda Nobuyoshi. Following his stipend increase to 250,000 ''koku'' in October 1604, he came of age on September 12, 1606, taking the name Yorimasa, and receiving the court rank of junior 4th, lower grade (''ju-shi-i-ge'') and the title of ''Hitachi no Suke''. On January 6, 1610, he was transferred to a 500,000 ''koku'' fief in Suruga and

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s (thereby founding

Sunpu Domain was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The domain centered at Sunpu Castle is what is now the Aoi-ku, Shizuoka. From 1869 it was briefly called . History During the Muromachi period, Sunpu was the capital of the ...

centered on

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), and took the name Yorinobu. However, after a little under a decade in Suruga, he was transferred to the 550,000 ''koku'' Wakayama Domain on August 27, 1619, following the transfer of the previous rulers, the

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, to Hiroshima, in

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. Yorinobu thus became the founder of the Kii branch of the Tokugawa family. Yorinobu's wife, Yorin-in (1601-1666) was the daughter of

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. By the end of his life, Yorinobu had achieved junior 2nd court rank (''ju-ni-i''), as well as holding the title of

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("major counselor"). Yorinobu had four children: his successor

Tokugawa Mitsusada was a '' daimyō'' in Japan during the Edo period (1603–1868). Mitsusada born as son and heir of Tokugawa Yorinobu and a grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu with childhood name Nagatomimaru (長福丸). Among his sons was the eighth Tokugawa shōgun ...

, Yorizumi, the founder of the Iyo-Saijo Domain, Inaba-hime, who married

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of the

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, and Matsuhime, who married Matsudaira Nobuhira of the

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. Following his death, he was referred to by the title ''Nanryū-in''. In 1915, Yorinobu was posthumously promoted to senior 2nd court rank (''shō-ni-i'').

Family

* Father:

* Mother: Kageyama-dono (1580–1653) later Yoju-in * Wife: Yasohime later Yorin-in (1601-1666) * Concubines: ** Yamada-dono ** Nakagawa-dono ** Ochi no Kata * Children: **

by Nakagawa-dono ** Shuri by Yamada-dono ** Matsudaira Yorizumi (1641-1711) by Ochi no Kata ** Inabahime married Ikeda Mitsunaka by Ochi no Kata ** Matsuhime married Matsudaira Nobuhira by Ochi no Kata

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Portrait of Yorinobu
1602 births 1671 deaths Kishū-Tokugawa clan Shinpan daimyo {{Daimyo-stub

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