TANUMA OKITSUGU

'Tanuma Okitsugu' (田沼 意次 1719, Edo, Japan - August 25, 1788, Edo) was a ''Rōjū'' (government official) of the Tokugawa shogunate who introduced monetary reform.
Though his reform has no particular name, it is identified with rampant corruption and huge inflation of currency. In ''Tenmei'' 4 (1784), the son of the Shogun's chief counselor was assassinated inside Edo Castle. The comparatively young ''wakadoshiyori'' (junior councilor), Tanuma Okitomo, was Okitsugu's son. The younger Tanuma was killed in front of his father as both were returning to their ''norimono'' after a meeting of the Counselors of State had broken up. The involvement of senior figures in the ''bakufu'' was suspected; however, none but the lone assassin himself was punished. The result was that Tanuma-initiated, liberalizing reforms within the ''bakufu'' and relaxing the strictures of ''sakoku'' were blocked.^[1] Tanuma Okitsugu's son was killed by Sano Masakoto, a ''hatamoto''.

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1. Screech, T. (2006). ''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822,'' pp. 148-151, 163-170, 248.

References

★ Hall, John Wesley. (1955) ''Tanuma Okitsugu: Foreruner of Modern Japan.'' Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

★ Screech, Timon. (2006). ''Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822.'' London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-7007-1720-X

★ Titsingh, Issac. (1820). ''Mémoires et Anecdotes sur la Dynastie régnante des Djogouns, Souverains du Japon, avec la description des fêtes et cérémonies observées aux différentes époques de l'année à la Cour de ces Princes, et un appendice contenant des détails sur la poésie des Japonais, leur manière de diviser l'année, etc.;'' Ouvrage orné de Planches gravées et coloriées, tiré des Originaux Japonais par M. Titsingh; publié avec des Notes et Eclaircissemens Par M. Abel Rémusat. Paris.

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★ Tenmei

★ Matsudaira Sadanobu