ABSTRACT
FAMILY OF HIDETADA THE SECOND TOKUGAWA SUoGuN.-Iyeyasu resigned his office of the Shogun to his son Hidetada, who took up his residence in Edo Castle in 1605, and retired himself to Shizuoka, leaving the new Shogun to attend to ordinary affairs and keeping in his own hands the settling of all important and delicate questions. Even in everyday affairs Hidetada was careful to consult his father as much as possible, and gave him the honourable name of Ogosho (Grand Highness). Hidetada was the third son, his eldest brother, Okazaki Nobuyasu, a brave and popular soldier, having committed suicide when suspected by his father of revolt. As to the second son, Hideyasu, Iyeyasu did not trust him, and there was no love lost between them. To forget his troubles Hideyasu took to drink, and often behaved in a very peculiar manner. Fortune thus elevated Hidetada, the son of a concubine, daughter of a local head-man in Mikawa, to be the second Shogun of the Tokugawa line at the age of 26; and by his wife, who was a younger sister of the famous Lady Yodo, he became the father of Iyemitsu, the third Shogun.
