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Tokugawa Ieshige

1712 - 1761

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Tokugawa Ieshige; 徳川 家重 (28 January 1712 – 13 July 1761) was the ninth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. The first son of Tokugawa Yoshimune, his mother was the daughter of Ōkubo Tadanao, known as Osuma no kata. His mother died in 1713 when he was only 2 years old, so he was raised by Yoshimune's concubine, Okon no Kata; Okon later gave birth to Tokugawa Munetake, so he was raised by another of Yoshimune's concubines, Okume no Kata, as her biological son. His childhood name was Nagatomi-maru (長福丸). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tokugawa Ieshige is the 6,762nd most popular politician (down from 6,339th in 2019), the 555th most popular biography from Japan (down from 475th in 2019) and the 191st most popular Japanese Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Tokugawa Ieshige ranks 6,762 out of 19,576. Before him are 7th Dalai Lama, Friedrich Ebert Jr., Paul Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Suryavarman I, Şevkefza Kadın, and Dongcheon of Goguryeo. After him are Fructuoso Rivera, Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, Philip de Montmorency, Count of Horn, Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, Bernard de Tremelay, and Maria Komnene.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1712, Tokugawa Ieshige ranks 9. Before him are Count of St. Germain, Prince Charles Alexander of Lorraine, Sayat-Nova, Francesco Guardi, Joanna Elisabeth of Holstein-Gottorp, and Charles-Michel de l'Épée. After him are Pauline Félicité de Mailly-Nesle, George Grenville, Louis-Joseph de Montcalm, Francesco Algarotti, Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay, and Toriyama Sekien. Among people deceased in 1761, Tokugawa Ieshige ranks 8. Before him are Thomas Bayes, Pieter van Musschenbroek, Samuel Richardson, Princess Elisabeth Albertine of Saxe-Hildburghausen, Stephen Hales, and Charlotte Aglaé d'Orléans. After him are Balaji Baji Rao, Clemens August of Bavaria, Pierre Fauchard, Tarabai, Thomas Simpson, and John Dollond.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tokugawa Ieshige ranks 555 out of 6,245. Before him are Ken Kutaragi (1950), Tomomi Seo (1950), Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1915), Taira no Masakado (903), Emperor Ichijō (980), and Akiyuki Nosaka (1930). After him are Ryozo Suzuki (1939), Hajime Sugiyama (1880), Ryū Murakami (1952), Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840), Ryuzo Hiraki (1931), and Nobutake Kondō (1886).

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Among POLITICIANS In Japan

Among politicians born in Japan, Tokugawa Ieshige ranks 191. Before him are Fusako Shigenobu (1945), Tokugawa Ieharu (1737), Ōyama Iwao (1842), Empress Masako (1963), Takahito, Prince Mikasa (1915), and Emperor Ichijō (980). After him are Hajime Sugiyama (1880), Kuroda Kiyotaka (1840), Emperor Shirakawa (1053), Ashikaga Yoshiteru (1536), Emperor Konoe (1139), and Mitsumasa Yonai (1880).

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