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Tokugawa Yoshinobu徳川慶喜 徳川慶喜alternative words: Yoshinobu Tokugawa, Tokugawa Keiki, Hitotsubashi Keiki keywords: famous person , meiji revolution , shogun related topics: Edo shogunate , Shogun , Gosanke , Kanagawa treaty , Meiji revolution related web sites: http://www.wnn.or.jp/wnn-history/bakumatsu/ishin/yosinobu/f_right.html , http://www.edu.pref.ibaraki.jp/rekishi/QandA/QandA.htm explanation: Last and 15th shogun of Edo shogunate. Born in 1873 as the 7th son of Seignior Mito. He strongly criticized a weak attitude of Edo shogunate when Commodore Perry had forced Japan to open her harbors. He had been then condemned to a house confinement but soon pardoned and nominated to the adviser of 14th shogun Iemochi, whom Yoshinobu succeeded in 1866. At that moment, Edo shogunate had been shaken by many factors, he had to surrender to Emperor's army in 1868. | |