, son of regent
Ichijō Akiyoshi, 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 ...
'' (court noble) of the
Edo period
The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...
(1603–1868) of
Japan
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. His wife was a daughter of
Ikeda Mitsumasa, the founding father of
Okayama Domain, and adopted daughter of shōgun
Tokugawa Iemitsu
was the third ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa shogunate, 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 acted as his political adviser and was at the ...
, and with her he had son
Kaneteru. Unlike his father or his son Kaneteru, he did not hold any regent position, but served as
Udaijin
was a government position in Japan during the Asuka to Meiji era. The position was consolidated in the Taihō Code of 701. The Asuka Kiyomihara Code of 689 marks the initial appearance of the ''Udaijin'' in the context of a central administrat ...
.
[this is why he is still a kugyō.]
Family
* Father:
Ichijo Akiyoshi
* Mother: Daughter of Nishinotoin Tokinao
* Wife: Seigen’in (1636-1717)
* Son:
Ichijo Kaneteru
References
*
1633 births
1707 deaths
Fujiwara clan
Ichijō family
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