Japan: Tokugawa Yoshimune (27 November 1684 - 12 July 1751), eighth ruler of the Tokugawa Shogunate (r. 1716-1751). Hanging scroll painting by Kano Tadanobu (1823-1880), 19th century. Tokugawa Yoshimune, born Genroku, was the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate and the son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, the daimyo of Kii and grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yoshimune succeeded his brothers as daimyo of Kii in 1705, and when boy-shogun Tokugawa Ietsugu died in 1716, he was chosen to be the new shogun. Considered among the best of the Tokugawa shoguns, he started the Kyoho Reforms in 1736.

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