Takatsukasa family
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The Template:Nihongo is a Japanese aristocratic kin group.<ref name="papinot58">Papinot, Jacques Edmond Joseph. (1906). Dictionnaire d’histoire et de géographie du Japon; Papinot, (2003). "Nijō," Nobiliare du Japon, p. 58; retrieved 2013-8-13.</ref> The Takatsukasa was a branch of the Fujiwara clan<ref name="nussbaum937">Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Takatsukasa-ke" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 937.</ref> and one of the Five regent houses, from which Sesshō and Kampaku could be chosen.<ref name="papinot58"/>
The family crest of Takatsukasa is peony.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
History
The Takatsukasa family was founded by Fujiwara no Kanehira (1228-1294), who was the sixth son of Konoe Iezane; he was also the first to take this family name,<ref name="papinot58"/> named after the section of Kyoto in which the household resided. The Takatsukasa family, for the first time, died out in the Sengoku period following the death of Tadafuyu, 13th head of the family, in 1546. Later in 1579, with the assistance of Oda Nobunaga,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> the third son of Nijō Haruyoshi took the name Takatsukasa Nobufusa and revived the household.<ref name="tak" /> Nobufusa's daughter Takako married Iemitsu, the third Tokugawa shōgun.
In 1884, Hiromichi, the head of the Takatsukasa family, became a prince in the kazoku system.<ref name="papinot58"/> In 1950, Princess Kazuko, the third daughter of Hirohito (the Emperor Showa) married Toshimichi Takatsukasa, but the couple had no children.<ref name="tak" />
Family Tree
First Creation (1252-1546)
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Second Creation (1579-present)
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Takatsukasa-Matsudaira (Yoshii) family
The Template:Nihongo was a cadet branch of both Takatsukasa and the Kishū-Tokugawa family, founded by Template:Ill, the youngest son of Takatsukasa Nobufusa.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Because of his sister's marriage to the shōgun Tokugawa Iemitsu since 1623, Nobuhira moved to Edo in 1650; Iemitsu welcomed his brother-in-law and granted him the rank hatamoto.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Kita">Template:Cite book</ref> Arranged by Iemitsu's successor Tokugawa Ietsuna, in 1653, Nobuhira married Matsuhime, the second daughter of Tokugawa Yorinobu;<ref name="dict">Template:Cite book</ref> as a close relative of the Tokugawa clan, Nobuhira was later allowed to adopt the family name Matsudaira by the next year.<ref name="Kita" /><ref name="kaz">Template:Cite book</ref> During the era of Meiji, the family name was changed to Yoshii (吉井), named after the family's fief Yoshii Domain in Edo Period.<ref name="dict" /><ref name="kaz" /> Template:Tree chart/start Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart Template:Tree chart/end <ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
