- Tokugawa Mochinaga
Infobox_Officeholder | name= Tokugawa Mochinaga
nationality=Japanese
caption=Tokugawa Mochinaga
order=Lord of the Hitotsubashi-Tokugawa
term_start=1866
term_end=1884
predecessor=Tokugawa Yoshinobu
successor=Tokugawa Satomichi
birth_date=birth date|1831|6|11|mf=y
birth_place=Edo ,Japan
death_date=death date and age|1884|3|6|1831|6|11|mf=y
death_place=
spouse=nihongo|Tokugawa Mochinaga|徳川茂徳| (
June 11 ,1831 -March 6 ,1884 ) was a Japanese samurai who was an influential figure of theBakumatsu period . The son ofMatsudaira Yoshitatsu ofTakasu han , his brothers included the famousMatsudaira Katamori ,Matsudaira Sadaaki , andTokugawa Yoshikatsu . Together, the four men were known as the Takasu yon-kyōdai 高須四兄弟, or "Four Brothers of Takasu." First serving as daimyo of his nativeTakasu Domain , and then theOwari Domain , Mochiharu retired before succeeding to the headship of the Hitotsubashi branch of the Tokugawa house. An important figure in the Bakumatsu period, he eventually retired the Hitotsubashi headship in favor of his son Satomichi.References
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Further reading
* [http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~me4k-skri/han/tokugawa/hitotubasi.html Hitotsubashi genealogy]
*Bolitho, Harold. "The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862-1868". Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1980.
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