, son of regent Kanetaka

Kujo Kanetaka

, son of Nijō Haruyoshi and adopted son of regent Tanemichi, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods . He held a regent position kampaku from 1578 to 1581 and from 1600 to 1604. Yukiie was his son....

, was a kugyō

Kugyo

is the collective term for the very few most powerful men attached to the court of the Emperor of Japan in pre-Meiji eras. The kugyō was broadly divided into two groups: the , comprising the Chancellor of the Realm, the Minister of the Left, and the Minister of the Right; and the , comprising the...

or Japanese court noble of the 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....

 (1603–1868). His given name was initially. He held a regent position kampaku from 1608 to 1612 and from 1619 to 1623. He married Toyotomi Sadako, a daughter of Toyotomi Hidekatsu and adopted daughter of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada

Tokugawa Hidetada

was the second shogun of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623. He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.-Early life :...

. The couple had, among other children, sons Nijō Yasumichi

Nijo Yasumichi

, son of Kujō Yukiie adopted son of Nijō Akizane, was a Japanese kugyō of the early Edo period. He held a regent position sesshō from 1635 to 1647. He married a daughter of Emperor Go-Yōzei, and the couple had son Nijō Mitsuhira.-References:...

 and Kujō Michifusa

Kujo Michifusa

, son of regent Yukiie, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period . He held a regent position sesshō in 1647. He married a daughter of second head of Echizen Domain Matsudaira Tadanao...

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