Nijo Yasumichi
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, son of Kujō Yukiie
adopted son of Nijō Akizane
, was a Japanese kugyō
(court noble) of the early Edo period
. He held a regent position sesshō from 1635 to 1647. He married a daughter of Emperor Go-Yōzei
, and the couple had son Nijō Mitsuhira
.
Kujo Yukiie
, son of regent Kanetaka, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period . His given name was initially. He held a regent position kampaku from 1608 to 1612 and from 1619 to 1623. He married Toyotomi Sadako, a daughter of Toyotomi Hidekatsu and adopted daughter of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada...
adopted son of Nijō Akizane
Nijo Akizane
, son of regent Nijō Haruyoshi, was a Japanese kugyō of the Azuchi-Momoyama period and the early Edo period. He held a regent position kampaku two times, once in 1585, and again from 1615 to 1619. He married a daughter of daimyo Oda Nobunaga and the couple adopted Kujō Yukiie's son, who became...
, was a Japanese kugyō
Kugyo
is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. The kugyō was broadly divided into two groups: the , comprising the Chancellor of the Realm, the Minister of the Left, and the Minister of the Right; and the , comprising the...
(court noble) of the early Edo period
Edo period
The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....
. He held a regent position sesshō from 1635 to 1647. He married a daughter of Emperor Go-Yōzei
Emperor Go-Yozei
was the 107th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Go-Yōzei's reign spanned the years from 1586 through 1611, corresponding to the transition between the Azuchi-Momoyama period and the Edo period....
, and the couple had son Nijō Mitsuhira
Nijo Mitsuhira
, son of Nijō Yasumichi, was a Japanese kugyō of the early Edo period. He held regent positions kampaku from 1653 to 1663 and sesshō from 1663 to 1664. Nijō Tsunahira was his adopted son. A daughter of his was a consort of the third head of Kōfu Domain Tokugawa Tsunashige.-References:...
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