Japan -- History; Japan -- Politics and government
XI. Iyay nari ko, 1787. He had fifty-one children; but as he was
subject to epileptic fits, and weakly in mind and body, he is not
generally believed to have been the father of many of them. Of his
children: The 2d, a daughter, married Owarri. The 3d was Iyay yoshi ko,
the twelfth Shiogoon of his line. The 11th, a daughter, married Mito.
The 13th, a son, became Kii, Dainagoong. His son, Iyay muschi ko, was
Shiogoon in 1858 to 1866. The 17th, Asahime, married Maizdaira, Etsizen
no kami. The 26th, Ta yass, afterward became Daimio of Owarri. The
28th, a daughter, married to Matzdaira, Hizen no kami (Nabeshima). The
32d, a daughter, married to Kanga. The 34th, a son, Mikawa no kami,
known afterward as Kakudo sama. He was adopted by Matzdaira Etsigo no
kami, and was considered a very able and judicious man, much respected.
A party wished, in 1858, to make him Shiogoon, but he declined. He
republished, for Japanese use, Kanghi’s “Dictionary of the Chinese
Language.” The 39th, a daughter, married to Matzdaira, Aki no kami. The
41st, a daughter, married Sakai, Oota no kami. The 42d, a daughter,
married Tokungawa, Mimboo kio. The 43d, a son, adopted by Owarri. The
45th, a son, adopted by Kiishiu, and afterward became Kii, Dainagoong.
The 46th, a son, adopted by Etsizen no kami. The 47th, a son, adopted
by Awa no kami. The 49th, Okura no tayu, adopted by Yamato no kami.
The 50th, Hiogo no tayu, adopted by Sahio yay no kami. The other
thirty-four children died in infancy or childhood.
XII. Iyay yoshi ko, 1837. He had twenty-five children, of whom: The
first six died in infancy. The 7th, Iyay sada ko, succeeded him. The
9th, Tokungawa, Mimboo kio, was adopted by Stotsbashi, one of the Go
san kio, and he himself afterward adopted a son of Mito, which son was,
until his abdication in 1867, the last Shiogoon of the dynasty. The
21st, a daughter, married Arima, Naka tskasa no tayu. The 25th married
Mito. The rest all died in infancy.
XIII. Iyay sada ko, appointed in 1853. He had no sons.
XIV. Iyay mutchi ko, 1858, formerly Haru taka, son of Kii, thirteenth
child of the eleventh Shiogoon, succeeded to the office. The death
of Iyay sada without an heir was the origin of much intrigue and
trouble in the empire during the year 1858. There were two claimants
to the succession; the one was the son of Mito, who had been adopted
by Tokungawa, Mimboo kio, the ninth son of the twelfth Shiogoon; the
other was the eldest surviving son of the eleventh Shiogoon, who had
been adopted by Kiishiu. It became, therefore, a struggle between the
two houses of Mito and Kiishiu, and the regent sided with the latter.
It was a question between a son adopted out of the line and a youth
who had been adopted into the line. Iyay mutchi died in 1867, and was
succeeded by Stotsbashi as Yoshi hissa, who in his turn abdicated in
1868, and so the dynasty of Tokungawa terminated.
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