24English
EditionFrom the Permanent Exhibition Area

Featured Exhibition

Jan. 21 Fri. 2022 No.24

Sunday, January 2 to Sunday, March 6, 2022
Permanent Exhibition, 5th Floor Feature Exhibition Room*Items on display may change during the exhibition.

The Tokugawa Clansmen:

The People Who Supported the Shogunal Family
Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543–1616)
became shogun in 1603 and laid
the foundations for peace lastingover 260 years. The shogun’s
position was not, however,always smoothly passed on to aneldest son and heir. Nor was theshogunate established andsustained by the shogun alone.
His council of elders, theyounger persons assisting it, andmany others supported theshogun and implemented theshogunate’s policies. In thisexhibition, we focus on one
group, people with blood ties toIeyasu and how they contributed
to the shogunal family’s longduration.
Ieyasu made his ninth, tenth,and eleventh sons, Yoshinao,Yorinobu, and Yorifusa, daimyoof the Owari, Kii, and Mito
domains. They became foundersof what were later called theGosanke, three privilegedbranches of the Tokugawa clan.
Their heads and other family
members took part in criticalpolicy planning. If the shogun
had no heir, one of the Gosankewould provide a successor. TheGosanke daimyo thus werePortrait of Tokugawa Ieyasu, posthumously
expected to perform far
deified as “Tosho Dai Gongen”
d i ff e r e n t r o l e s f r o m o t h e r
Tokugawa Memorial Foundationdaimyo. When the seventh
Tokugawa shogun, Ietsugu (1709–16) died tragically young, leaving no heir, the Kii
Tokugawa daimyo, Yoshimune (1684–1751), succeeded to the headship of theshogunal family and became the eighth shogun.
To help support the shogunal family, Yoshimune gave his second son, Munetake,and his fourth son, Munetada, residences within Edo Castle. The ninth shogun,Ieshige, Yoshimune’s eldest son, similarly gave his second son, Shigeyoshi, a residence
inside the castle. From those sons sprang the Gosankyo, the Tayasu, Hitotsubashi,and Shimizu branches of the Tokugawa clan. They, too, as members of the clan,
supported the shogunal family.
Ienari (1773–1841), the eleventh shogun, was from the Hitotsubashi
Tokugawa family. He had fifty-three sons and daughters, whom he had adopted byor married into the Gosanke and Gosankyo Tokugawa families and also
non-Tokugawa lines, including the Tozama daimyo families, which were nothereditary vassals of the Tokugawa and had not supported Ieyasu before thedecisive battle that established the Tokugawa hegemony and led to the creation of
the shogunate. Clan members insinuated into those families could then provide
support, even outside the Tokugawa clan. Ienari’s seventh son, Nariyuki, became
the eleventh-generation head of the Kii Tokugawa family; Nariyuki’s son Iemochi(1846–66) became the fourteenth shogun. Other Tokugawa clan members such as
Matsudaira Naritami (Kakudo), the sixteenth son of the Tsuyama daimyo, andHelmet and Armor withdark blue braid lining

Hachisuka Narihiro, the twenty-second son of the Tokushima daimyo, also played
major roles during the Bakumatsu period, the closing years of the Tokugawa
shogunate.
During the political instability of the Bakumatsu, it was Yoshinobu (1837–1913),
originally from the Mito Tokugawa family and then adopted by the Hitotsubashi
Tokugawa, who became the last shogun. Other key figures of that period included
Tenshoin (Princess Atsu), the official wife of Iesada, the thirteenth shogun, andImperial Princess Kazuno, who was married to Iemochi. In addition, a six-year-oldboy named Kamenosuke, who was born into the Tayasu Tokugawa family, wasrenamed Tokugawa Iesato (1863–1940) and became head of the shogunal family, tocarry on the Tokugawa
clan’s name after thefall of the Tokugawa
shogunate.
From Ieyasu on, theTokugawa shogunal
family was supportedand sustained by theTokugawa clansmen.
This exhibition introduces what
those clansmen achieved
through a variety of artifacts
associated with the Tokugawaclan.

Kosode with Embroidery ofSparrow and Bamboo in Snow
on Light Green Crepe Ground,with Peony CrestTokugawa Memorial Foundation
Exhibition period:
January 2 – January 30

From the Permanent Exhibition Area

Chōya Shinbun Newspaper Company:
Modern Journalism in Tokyo

Newspaper office, Chōya Shinbunsha

Restoration time period: 1877–1886 Scale:1/1

At the entrance to the Tokyo Zone in our Permanent Exhibition Gallery stands thefacade of the Chōya Shinbun Newspaper Company building, restored at full scale. In
September 1874, the Kōbun Tsūshi (a newspaper launched in 1862) was renamed theChōya Shinbun. With Narushima Ryūhoku, a former retainer of the shogunate, as itspresident, it became a full-scale news and opinion newspaper.
The first daily paper in Tokyo was the Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun, which began
publication in 1872. It was followed by a series of other newspapers. Modern
journalism took root in the city. In January of 1874, Itagaki Taisuke and colleagues
presented their “White Paper For Establishing a Council Chamber Chosen by thePeople” (i.e., an elected parliament), leading to the Freedom and Popular Rights
Movement. Then heated arguments emerged in the newspapers, between those
supporting the government’s positions and those supporting the Freedom andPopular Rights Movement’s position. In 1875, with the Press Ordinance and theDefamation Law, measures against publishing political opinion were strengthened.
In this context, the Chōya Shinbun, a newspaper on the popular rights side of theVisitor Information
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fence, criticized the government harshly, earning it considerable popularity. Thatpopularity was underlain by the work of two highly individual journalists, Narushima
Ryūhoku and Suehiro Tetchō. Ryūhoku’s witty columns, with his satirical treatmentof current events, and the sharp criticism of the government in Tetchō’s editorials,
after he became editor-in-chief in October 1875, were highly regarded. The paper also
carried articles about a literary society Ryūhoku led, thus becoming the firstnewspaper to provide the equivalent of today’s culture page. Ryūhoku and Tetchō
were penalized for the criticism of the government their newspaper published. Their
opposition to government censorship, however, appealed to many people, and thenumber of Chōya Shinbun subscribers increased.
In 1876, based on the strong rise in its number of subscribers, the newspaper
moved to a site at the Ginza 4-chome corner where the Wako building now stands.
The Chōya Shinbun was then one of the four major newspapers in Tokyo, alongwith the pro-government Tokyo Nichinichi Shinbun and the popular rights
supporting papers, theYūbin Hōchi Shinbun
and the Tokyo Akebono
S h i n b u n . Th e C h ō y aShinbun was a leading
journalistic presence inthat day. With its moveto what was known as
Ginza Bricktown, a
district with modern,Western-style buildings,
a symbol of “civilizationand enlightment,” othernewspaper companies
gradually gathered there,
turning it into the centerof journalism in Japan.
(Akima Takayo, Curator)

The Chōya Shinbun No. 2270
April 15, 1881

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