Yoshinobu Tokugawa

Yoshinobu Tokugawa (徳川慶喜 Tokugawa Yoshinobu ) (1837 - 1913) was the seventh wire of Nariaki Tokugawa, Daimyō of Mito. Its name of origin was Tokugawa Shichirômaro (七郎麿). His/her father formed it with arts of the war and the policy, but its family was too far away from the family of the Shogun so that it can claim to reach the capacity. Nariaki then makes it adopt by the big family Hitotsubashi, it becomes Hitotsubashi Yoshinobu then.

In 1858, the shogun Iesada Tokugawa dies without leaving descent. A league of daimyō isolated of the capacity shogunal then will support the “candidature” of Yoshinobu. But the entourage of the shogun will make name Naosuke II Tairô . This one will defend ardently Tokugawa Yoshitomi, 12 years, for the station of shogun. This last will be indeed made adopt by Iesada little before its death under the name of Iemochi Tokugawa and will become shogun. Yoshinobu and its partisans will then be punished.

But a few years later, in the agitation of the pre-revolution Meiji, Yoshinobu, supported by the daimyō Hisamitsu Shimazu, will be able to turn over to Edo. Indeed, in August 1862, it is restored in its titles and honors, and even named tutor of Iemochi.

In 1866, Iemochi falls ill and dies. Yoshinobu is then named shogun under the name of Tokugawa Yoshinobu . It will try to modernize the army shogunale quickly, but it is too late. Indeed, in November 1867, vis-a-vis the forces of the partisans of the emperor, it is obliged to abdicate and return the capacity. It is thus the last shogun of Japan, with a reign of less than two years.

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