Tokugawa Hollyhock (13 stamens) Pin

In the Tokugawa Soke family, the center of the Aoi crest was not standardized at first. According to "Gomon Hikae Sho," a document submitted to the shogunate by Goto Nuidono-suke, the official tailor, during the Bunsei era (1818-1830), the first three shoguns, Ieyasu, Hidetada, and Iemitsu, used 33 stamens; Ietsuna used 19 and 23; Tsunayoshi used 23 and 27; and Ienobu used 31 and 35. (The original document is missing Ietsugu.) Yoshimune used 23; Ieshige and Ieharu both used 13. From around this time, the Tokugawa crest was standardized to 13 stamens, and all subsequent shoguns used 13. (Numata Raiho, "Nihon Moncho Gaku," p. 407) The same