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Tokugawa Ietsuna

Type Figure Region Japan Time 1641–1680 Also known as fourth shogun

Tokugawa Ietsuna (1641–1680) was the fourth shogun of the Edo shogunate, succeeding as a child after the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu;…

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  1. 1641–1651Edo Castle · EdoBorn in Edo, he was a son of the third shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. As a child he received Confucian education and training in samurai etiquette, raised under the guardianship of Hoshina Masayuki and others.
  2. 1651–1680Edo Castle · EdoHe succeeded to the shogunate at age ten, initially assisted by elder Sakai Tadatsugu and his uncle Hoshina Masayuki. In the 1660s he carried out Kanbun and Jōkyō reforms, tidying fiefs and finances and strengthening shogunal order under the sakoku system.

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