page_title: Tokugawa Hidetada
section_title: Ogosho (1623–1632)
hierarchical_section_title: Tokugawa Hidetada / Ogosho (1623–1632)
caption_attribution_description: English: View of Edo, left screen. pair of six-panel folding screens (17th century). UPPER MIDDLE OF FIFTH PANEL, Left Screen Shiba Zojoji Temple, Daitokuin Buddha Hall, Iemitsu visiting the Daitokuin Buddha Hall.
context_page_description: Tokugawa Hidetada was the second shōgun of the Tokugawa dynasty, who ruled from 1605 until his abdication in 1623. He was the third son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate.
context_section_description: In Genna 9 (1623), Hidetada resigned the government to his eldest son and heir, Tokugawa Iemitsu. Like his father before him, Hidetada became Ōgosho or retired shōgun, and retained effective power. He enacted draconian anti-Christian measures, which Ieyasu had only considered: he banned Christian books, forced Christian daimyōs to commit suicide, ordered other Christians to apostatize under penalty of death; and executed fifty-five Christians (both Japanese and foreign) who refused to renounce Christianity or to go into hiding, by burning, along with their children, in Nagasaki in 1628.
  Ōgosho Hidetada died in Kan'ei 9, on the 24th day of the 1st month (March 14, 1632). His Buddhist posthumous name is Daitoku-in (台徳院). His ashes were ceremoniously laid to rest in the Taitoku-in Mausoleum in Edo.
caption: Shogun Iemitsu visiting Taitoku-in Mausoleum, as depicted in the Edo-zu byōbu screens (17th century)
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