Tokugawa Ieshige; 徳川 家重 (January 28, 1712 – July 13, 1761) was the ninth shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. The first son of Tokugawa Yoshimune, his mother was the daughter of Ōkubo Tadanao, known as Osuma no kata. His mother died in 1713 when he was only 2 years old, so he was raised by Yoshimune's concubine, Okon no Kata but later Okon give birth to Tokugawa Munetake so he was raised by another of Yoshimune's concubines, Okume no Kata as her biological son. On April 16, 1731, he married Nami-no-Miya Masuko, daughter of Fushimi no Miya Kuninaga Shinnō (imperial prince of a shinnōke).