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Despite Tanuma's intentions to serve the public good, he was deeply corrupt and exacerbated corruption in government. Several years of crop failures from 1783 to 1787, resulting from drought followed by floods, led to famine and frequent riots.
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metal during that period), despite higher domestic prices. Tanuma's administration granted monopoly patents for numerous products, including iron, brass, sulfur, ginseng and lamp oil. Large investments were made into the massive
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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
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of Japan. Tanuma and his son exercised tremendous power, especially in the last 14 years of shogun Ieharu's reign. He is known for the economic reforms of the
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Tanuma's reforms aimed to rectify the systemic problems in Japan's economy, particularly the trade imbalance between the provinces (
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The famine led to a spike in a number of protests and peasant rebellions, culminating in the
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Mémoires et anecdotes sur la dynastie régnante des djogouns, souverains du Japon
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after a meeting of the Counselors of State had broken up. Okitomo was killed by
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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822
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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822
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was suspected, but only the assassin himself was punished.
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Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719–1788: Forerunner of Modern Japan
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Index

Okitsugu
Japanese name
surname

Lord of Sagara
Edo
Japan
Edo
Japan
Edo
Japan
chamberlain
rōjū
shōgun
Tokugawa Ieharu
Tokugawa Shogunate
Edo period
Tenmei
daimyō
Sagara Domain
Tokugawa Yoshimune
Akita
coinage
drainage
Tenmei
wakadoshiyori
Tanuma Okitomo
ja
Edo Castle
norimono

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