Japan: Tokugawa Ietsugu (8 August 1709- 19 June 1716), seventh ruler of the Tokugawa Shogunate (r. 1713-1716). Hanging scroll portrait, 18th century. Tokugawa Ietsugu, born Nabematsu, was the seventh shogun of the Tokugawa Dynasty and the son of Tokugawa Ienobu. He was three when his father died and he became nominal shogun, and was quickly married to the daughter of Emperor Reigen, Yoshiko no Miya, in 1715. The Confucian scholar Arai Hakuseki, who had been a long-time advisor to Ietsugu's father, served as de facto regent. He died from a cold at the age of six.

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