Word: yoshinobu
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tycoon (Japanese: Dai?Great; Kun?Noble One, or Prince) used by the latter Shoguns of the Tokugawa Line descended from leasu (Seventeenth Century) and up to the abdication of Tokugawa Yoshinobu...
...Embassy the great Prince Iyesato Tokugawa. Since 1903 he has been President of the House of Peers, but that is relatively unimportant. The unique distinction of Prince Tokugawa is that he is the heir of the last dynasty of Japanese Shoguns who ruled from 1603 until the last Shogun, Yoshinobu Tokugawa, voluntarily renounced his powers in 1867, and permitted restoration of the authority of the Japanese Imperial Dynasty...
...Prince was born at Tokyo, in 1863, and was adopted five years later as the son and heir of his kinsman Prince Yoshinobu Tokugawa, who had just relinquished the Shogunate. Soon afterward the newly-made-potent Emperor Mutsuhito appointed 5-year-old heir Tokugawa to be Governor of Shidzuoka Province, as a mark of the esteem in which the House of Tokugawa was, and still is, held by the Imperial House of Japan...