Yoshimune TOKUGAWA, the eighth shogun became shogun through the lord of the Kishu clan, and so did Iemochi TOKUGAWA, the fourteenth Shogun, through the lord of the Kishu clan, as also did Yoshinobu TOKUGAWA, the fifteenth Shogun, from the Mito-Tokugawa family through the head of the Hitotsubashi family.
八代将軍徳川吉宗は紀州藩主から、十四代将軍徳川家茂は紀州藩主から、十五代将軍徳川慶喜は水戸徳川家から一橋家当主を経て将軍となっている。