Tokugawa Takachiyo
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was a Japanese samurai
of the late Edo period
who succeeded Tokugawa Yoshiyori
as incumbent to the Tayasu-Tokugawa headship.
Samurai
is the term for the military nobility of pre-industrial Japan. According to translator William Scott Wilson: "In Chinese, the character 侍 was originally a verb meaning to wait upon or accompany a person in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau...
of the late 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....
who succeeded Tokugawa Yoshiyori
Tokugawa Yoshiyori
was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period. Son of the 3rd generation Tayasu family head, Narimasa, he was head of the Tayasu house twice- 1839-1863, and 1868-1876. He went to Shizuoka han in 1868, and served as the guardian of the young daimyo Tokugawa Iesato....
as incumbent to the Tayasu-Tokugawa headship.