Content Description Tokugawa Yoshimune, whose childhood name was Genroku, was born in 1684 (the first year of the Jokyo era) with a woman rescued from collapse as his mother. His father was Mitsusada, the lord of the 550,000-koku Wakayama domain. Although Tsunanori and Yorizane already existed, his two older brothers died in quick succession from illness, and he succeeded the Kishu family at the age of twenty-two. Meanwhile, the sixth shogun Ienobu desired Yoshimichi, the fourth lord of the Owari Tokugawa family, the head of the Gosanke, as the next shogun, but the following year, Yoshimichi suddenly died. Ienobu's heir, Ietsugu, also died three years later from complications of measles, and finally, Yoshimune became the shogun. A satisfying, newly written long historical novel. The Extraordinary Tokugawa Yoshimune (Tokuma Bunko) by Yoshio Nitta / Author Author: Yoshio Nitta / Author Publisher: Tokuma Shoten Product Format: 318 pages, 16 cm Series Name: Tokuma Bunko