Tokugawa Iesada | |
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Shōgun | |
In office 1853–1858 | |
Monarch | Kōmei |
Preceded by | Tokugawa Ieyoshi |
Succeeded by | Tokugawa Iemochi |
Personal details | |
Born | Edo, Tokugawa shogunate (now Tokyo, Japan) | 6 May 1824
Died | 14 August 1858 Tokugawa shogunate | (aged 34)
Spouse(s) | Princess Takatsukasa Atsuko Princess Ichijō Hideko Princess Atsu |
Parent(s) | Tokugawa Ieyoshi Honjuin |
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Tokugawa Iesada (徳川 家定, May 6, 1824 – August 14, 1858) was the 13th shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He held office for five years from 1853 to 1858. He was physically weak and was therefore considered by later historians to have been unfit to be shōgun.[1] His reign marks the beginning of the Bakumatsu period.