Imagawa Norinobu
Imagawa Norinobu was a Japanese samurai of the late Edo period.
Norinobu was influential in the last days of the Tokugawa shogunate, being appointed a wakadoshiyori shortly before its demise and working for the new government to show clemency to the Tokugawa family.
Genealogy
Born the 3rd son of Imagawa Yoshiyori, he was a hatamoto who headed one of the 26 families holding the position of kōke in the Tokugawa shogunate, a position whose most famous holder was Kira Yoshinaka of Chushingura fame. His childhood name was Hikosaburo.He was a direct descendant of the famed Imagawa Yoshimoto and his son Ujizane.
Family
- Father: Imagawa Yoshiyori
- Mother: Matsura Seizan’s daughter
- Wife: Keirin’in
- Children:
- * Imagawa Yoshihito
- * daughter
- * Sen married Shino Tomitaka