Takatsukasa Masamichi

Takatsukasa Masamichi (鷹司 政通, August 22, 1789 – November 29, 1868), son of regent Masahiro, was a Kugyō or Japanese court noble of the late Edo and the late Tokugawa shogunate periods. He held the regent position of kampaku from 1823–1856. In 1856, at the Ansei Purge, he was prosecuted and later became a priest. Sukehiro was his son who he had with a daughter of the seventh head of Mito Domain Tokugawa Harutoshi. One of his daughters married the thirteenth head of Tokushima Domain Hachisuka Narihiro.

In this Japanese name, the family name is Takatsukasa.

References

• 鷹司家（摂家） (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-08-15.
• Japanese Wikipedia