- Tokugawa Yoshitomo
Tokugawa Yoshitomo (徳川慶朝; born
February 1 ,1950 ) is the present (4th generation) head of the "Tokugawa Yoshinobu-ke ", the branch of the Tokugawa line started by the last shogunTokugawa Yoshinobu .Biography
Born in Sena, in Shizuoka Prefecture, he went to school in Tokyo, later engaging in a career in photography [Tokugawa Yoshitomo, "Tokugawa Yoshinobu-ke ni yōkoso", pp. 124-127] (incidentally, the hobby of his great-grandfather) and graphic design with
Honda . Now a freelance author, he spends his time writing about the history of his family after the Meiji Restoration. He also sells coffee under the brand name "Tokugawa Shōgun Kōhii".Through his mother's side of the family, Yoshitomo is also a descendant of the famous
Matsudaira Katamori .In early 2007, a man claiming to be Yoshitomo's son "Yoshihiro" was arrested by the
Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department on charges offraud .Quotation
Principal Works
*"Tokugawa Yoshinobu-ke ni Youkoso". Tokyo: Bungei-shunju, 2003.
*"Tokugawa Yoshinobu-ke no Shokutaku". Tokyo: Bungei-shunju, 2005.Notes
References
*Tokugawa Yoshitomo. "Tokugawa Yoshinobu-ke ni yōkoso: waga ie ni tsutawaru aisubeki "saigo no shōgun" no yokogao". Tokyo: Bunshun-bunko, 2005.
* [http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%BE%B3%E5%B7%9D%E6%85%B6%E6%9C%9D Japanese Wikipedia article] on Yoshitomo (acc. 5 Feb. 2008)
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