# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/tokugawa-yoshinobu
# Generated: 2026-08-31T14:02:41.361Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/tokugawa-yoshinobu"
name: "Tokugawa Yoshinobu"
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description: "He held the title no one wanted: last shōgun of Japan. Tried reform, resigned the office, lost the war that followed, then spent forty-five years out of sight."
tagline: "15th and last shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate (1837–1913)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/1867_Osaka_Yoshinobu_Tokugawa.jpg"
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birthDate: "1837-10-28"
deathDate: "1913-11-22"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 28 October 1837, Tokugawa Yoshinobu became the fifteenth shōgun in a system already cracking under its own weight. He joined reformers trying to modernize the Tokugawa shogunate, but the structure wouldn't bend. In late 1867 he resigned, hoping to retain influence from the wings. That gamble collapsed at the Battle of Toba–Fushimi in early 1868. Afterward he withdrew into private life and stayed there, mostly invisible, until his death on 22 November 1913.