# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tokugawa-yoshimune
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:14:02.714Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/tokugawa-yoshimune"
name: "Tokugawa Yoshimune"
slug: "tokugawa-yoshimune"
description: "Tokugawa Yoshimune  was a Japanese samurai, daimyo and the eighth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1716 until his abdication in 1745. He was the son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, the grandson of Tokugawa Yorinobu, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Yoshimune is known for repealing the ban on Western literature."
tagline: "The eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan (1684-1751)"
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gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1684-11-27"
deathDate: "1751-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             3.697955780397658
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  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump