Tokugawa Yorifusa

In this Japanese name, the family name is Tokugawa.

Tokugawa Yorifusa (徳川 頼房, September 15, 1603 – August 23, 1661), also known as Mito Yorifusa, was a Japanese daimyo of the early Edo period.

Biography

Known in his childhood as Tsuruchiyomaru, he was the eleventh son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first Tokugawa shogun. Yorifusa was first enfeoffed in the Shimotsuma domain (100,000 koku) from 1606 to 1609, before being transferred to Mito (Hitachi Province, 350,000 koku) in 1609, thereby founding the Mito branch of the Tokugawa house (the junior branch of the gosanke). A holder of the junior 3rd court rank (jusanmi), Yorifusa held the title of chūnagon (middle counselor), both of which he received in 1627.

His children included Mitsukuni, Yorishige, Yorimoto, Matsudaira Yoritaka, and Yorikatsu.

References

• Fukuda, Chizuru (2005). Oie-sōdō. Tokyo: Chūōkōron-shinsha.

Preceded by Tagaya Shigetsune	Daimyo of Shimotsuma 1606–1609	Succeeded by Matsudaira Tadamasa
Preceded by Tokugawa Yorinobu	Daimyo of Mito 1609–1661	Succeeded by Tokugawa Mitsukuni

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