his court rank was promoted to Junior First Rank in 1888. He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, first class in 1889. Shungaku died at age of 63 in 1890. His death poem is "Even if I become one of countless souls, I would soar up to heaven and protect Emperor's reign for our nation (Naki-kazu-ni/Yoshiya-iru-tomo/Amakakeri/Miyo-wo-Mamoramu/Sume-kuni-no-tame)". His tomb is located at the temple Kaian-ji in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Family Father: Tokugawa Narimasa Mother: Orin no Kata (1796-1871) Wife: Yu-hime （1834-1887, daughter of Hosokawa Narimori of Kumamoto Domain Children: Yasuhime (1860-1865) Concubine: Oman Children: Sadahima (1865-1866) Seihime (1867) Concubine (name unknown) Children Sakihime (1872) Rokunosuke (1873) Kōtai (1875) Concubine: Fujita (1855-1925） Setsuhime (1876-1936), married Matsudaira Yasutaka Satōhime (1878-1955), married Tokugawa Atsushi Masahime (1879-1940), married Mōri Gorō Chiyōhime (1881-1952), married Sanji Kimiyoshi Matsudaira Yoshitami (1882-1948) Tokugawa Yoshichika (1886-1976), head of the Owari-Tokugawa clan Episodes Yoshinaga wrote letters inscribed on "Bunkyu-Eihou" coin minted at end of Shogunate. Yoshinaga named the regnal year "Meiji". Yoshinaga is seen as one of the "Four Wise Lords at the end of Shogunate" together with Shimazu Nariakira (Lord of Satsuma), Yamauchi Toyonobu (Lord of Tosa), and Date Munenari (Lord of Uwajima). But he himself later said "The real Wise Lord was Shimazu Nariakira only, and even Mito Lords, Yamaushi Yodo, Nabeshima Naotada and of course I cannot even come close to him." Yoshinaga is created with planting the first western-style apples in Japan at the clan's residence in Sugamo, Tokyo See also Fukui Prefectural Fujishima High School William Elliot Griffis References Further reading Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868. London: Oxford University Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)] Kawabata, Taihei (1967). Matsudaira Shungaku. (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan). Mikami, Kazuo (2004). Bakumatsu ishin to Matsudaira Shungaku. (Tokyo: Yoshikawa Kōbunkan). Nihon-shi Jiten 日本史辞典. (Tokyo: Ōbunsha 旺文社) Totman, Conrad. The Collapse of the Tokugawa Bakufu, 1862–1868. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press, 1980. External links "Fukui" at Edo 300 越前松平氏 (Echizen Matsudaira) at ReichsArchiv.jp Shinpan daimyo Japanese politicians Tokugawa clan Fukui-Matsudaira clan 1828 births 1890 deaths Meiji Restoration People of the Boshin War Deified Japanese people