Tokugawa Yorifusa

Template:Japanese name Tokugawa Yorifusa (徳川 頼房, September 15, 1603 – August 23, 1661), also known as Mito Yorifusa, was a Japanese daimyō of the early Edo period.

Biography

Known in his childhood as Tsuruchiyomaru (鶴千代丸), he was the eleventh son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shogun with his concubine, Kageyama-dono. Yorifusa was first enfeoffed in the Shimotsuma domain (100,000 koku) from 1606 to 1609, before being transferred to Mito (Hitachi Province, 350,000 koku) in 1609, thereby founding the Mito branch of the Tokugawa house (the junior branch of the gosanke). A holder of the junior 3rd court rank (jusanmi), Yorifusa held the title of chūnagon (middle counselor), both of which he received in 1627.

His children included Mitsukuni, Yorishige, Yorimoto, Matsudaira Yoritaka, and Yorikatsu.

Family

• Father: Tokugawa Ieyasu
• Mother: Kageyama-dono (1580–1653) later Yoju-in
• Wife, Concubine, Children:
  • Wife: Hisa later Kyushoin (1604-1662), daughter of Tani Shigenori
    • Matsudaira Yorishige
    • Tokugawa Mitsukuni
  • Concubine: Okatsu no Kata later Enrin-in, daughter of Sasaki Masakatsu

References

• Fukuda, Chizuru (2005). Oie-sōdō. Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha.

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