Tokudaiji Kin'ito (徳大寺 公純, December 22, 1821 – November 5, 1883) was a Japanese kugyō (court noble) during the Bakumatsu period.
Amongst his children were Tokudaiji Sanetsune,[2] Saionji Kinmochi,[3][4] Suehiro Takemaro and Sumitomo Tomoito.
[7][8] In 1858, Emperor Kōmei appointed Kin'ito and Ichijō Tadaka as his emissaries to the Ise Grand Shrine.
Kin'ito then promoted the kōbu gattai policy with Nijō Nariyuki[10] and opposed the marriage between Princess Kazu and Tokugawa Iemochi, for which he resigned under pressure from the shogunate.
His public duties were also being targeted in political fluctuations, and in 1863, his vassals were killed by rōnin who opposed the civil war.