Nijo Tsunahira
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, son of Kujō Kaneharu
and adopted son of Nijō Mitsuhira
, was a Japanese kugyō
(court noble) of the Edo period
. He held a regent position kampaku from 1722 to 1726. A daughter of Emperor Reigen
was his wife who gave birth to Nijō Yoshitada
.
Kujo Kaneharu
, son of Takatsukasa Norihira and adopted son of regent Michifusa, was a kugyō or Japanese court noble of the Edo period . Unlike other members of the family, he did not hold regent positions kampaku and sesshō. He married a daughter of Kujō Michifusa and a daughter of Emperor Go-Mizunoo. With the...
and adopted son of Nijō Mitsuhira
Nijo Mitsuhira
, son of Nijō Yasumichi, was a Japanese kugyō of the early Edo period. He held regent positions kampaku from 1653 to 1663 and sesshō from 1663 to 1664. Nijō Tsunahira was his adopted son. A daughter of his was a consort of the third head of Kōfu Domain Tokugawa Tsunashige.-References:...
, was a Japanese 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...
(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....
. He held a regent position kampaku from 1722 to 1726. A daughter of Emperor Reigen
Emperor Reigen
was the 112th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.Reigen's reign spanned the years from 1663 through 1687.-Genealogy:...
was his wife who gave birth to Nijō Yoshitada
Nijo Yoshitada
, son of regent Nijō Tsunahira, was a Japanese kugyō of the Edo period. He held a regent position kampaku from 1736 to 1737. He married a daughter of the fourth head of Kaga Domain Maeda Tsunanori. Nijō Munehira was his son. Also, one of his daughters was a consort of Emperor...
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