High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Tokugawa Yoshinobu House ( Tokugawa Yoshinobu-ke ) was founded in 1902 when Emperor Meiji permitted Tokugawa Yoshinobu, the last Sh gun of Japan, to found a house with the highest rank of nobility, k shaku (Prince). The title was officially declared obsolete in 1947, though the family still maintains it. The wife of Prince Takamatsu-no-miya Nobuhito (third son of Emperor Taish ) was Tokugawa Kikuko, daughter of the 2nd Prince of the Yoshinobu-ke, Yoshihisa.