Tokugawa Ieyoshi
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In this Japanese name, the family name is Tokugawa.
Tokugawa Ieyoshi
Tokugawa Ieyoshi

Tokugawa Ieyoshi (徳川 家慶, June 22, 1793–July 27, 1853; r.1837–1853) was the 12th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan.

He was the second son of the 11th shogun, Tokugawa Ienari, and employed Mizuno Tadakuni to conduct the Tenpo reform.

Ieyoshi was utterly surprised and unprepared upon receiving word of the arrival of Matthew Perry's ships in Edo Bay.[1] Whether from shock or from some other cause, Shogun Ieyoshi soon began to feel very sick and died shortly afterwards.

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In Popular Culture

Tokugawa Ieyoshi is a minor character in Stephen Sondheim's musical "Pacific Overtures," in which he is murdered by his mother, using poisoned chrysanthemum tea.

He is also a minor character in the first two Nemuri Kyoshiro made-for-TV specials starring Tamura Masakazu.

Eras of Ieyoshi's bakufu

The years in which Ieyoshi was shogun are more specifically identified by more than one era name or nengō.

Notes

  1. ^ The American naval expedition planners did have the forethought to incorporate reference material written by men whose published accounts of Japan were based on first-hand experience. J.W. Spaulding brought with him books by Japanologists Engelbert Kaempfer, Carl Peter Thunberg, and Isaac Titsingh. Screech, T. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822, p.73.

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Preceded by
Tokugawa Ienari		 Edo Shogun:
Tokugawa Ieyoshi
1837-1853		 Succeeded by
Tokugawa Iesada
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