Tanuma Okitsugu
Tanuma Okitsugu | |
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 Tanuma Okitsugu | |
| Lord of Sagara | |
| In office 1767–1786 | |
| Preceded by | Honda Tadanaka |
| Succeeded by | Tanuma Okiaki |
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| Born | September 11, 1719 Edo, Japan |
| Died | August 25, 1788 (aged 68) Edo, Japan |
Tanuma Okitsugu (田沼 意次) (September 11, 1719, in
Tanuma's reforms aimed to rectify the systemic problems in Japan's economy, particularly the trade imbalance between the provinces (han) and the shogunal areas (tenryō) of Japan. program to increase the agricultural land.
Despite Tanuma's intentions to serve the public good, he was deeply corrupt and exacerbated corruption in government.[1] Several years of crop failures from 1783 to 1787, resulting from drought followed by floods, led to famine and frequent riots.[1]
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The famine led to a spike in a number of protests and peasant rebellions, culminating in the Edo riots of 1787. Traditionalist opponents of the reform interpreted it as the "voice of Heaven" being followed by the "voice of the people". With the assassination of his son and the death of his patron Tokugawa Ieharu, Tanuma fell from power.[4] The result was that the reforms and the relaxation of the strictures of sakoku were blocked.[5]
Notes
- ^ a b c d e Hane, M. (2018). Premodern Japan: A historical survey. Routledge.
- ^ Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822, p. 222 n65.
- ^ Jansen, Marius B. (2000). The Making of Modern Japan, pp. 240–241.
- ^ Jansen, p. 241
- ^ Screech, pp. 148–151, 163–170, 248.
References
- Hall, John Whitney. (1955). Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719–1788: Forerunner of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. OCLC 445621
- OCLC 255146140.
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