Tokugawa Tomoko

Tokugawa Tomoko

NameTokugawa Tomoko
TitleMembers of the Tokugawa family before and after the war in Japan
GenderFemale
Birthday1875-08-15
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LastUpdate2025-11-19T10:05:21.231Z

Introduction

Tomoko Tokugawa (born August 15, 1875 — died January 6, 1953) was a woman who was active from the Meiji era through the postwar Showa era in Japan. She was the wife of TatsuTaka Tokugawa, the ninth head of the Tasu Tokugawa family.

According to detailed information about her birth and family background, she was born as the fifth daughter of Tadahisa Shimazu. Her mother was Tsunemitsu Yamazaki, a concubine wife. Her sisters included Princess Kikmaro Tsune and Princess Kunihiko Kuikō, making Tomoko a paternal aunt of Empress Kōjun.

Regarding her marriage, she became the second wife of TatsuTaka Tokugawa, the head of the Tasu Tokugawa family, after the death of his first wife, Kikō Tokugawa. Through this marriage, she became part of the Tokugawa family. In 1899, she gave birth to their eldest son, TatsuNori Tokugawa, and later, in 1910, she bore a fifth daughter, Keiko.

She passed away in 1953 at the age of 77.

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