Tokugawa Yoshimune

was a Japanese shogun of the Edo period.  His ruled started in 1716 and ended in 1745.<ref name="nussbaum979">Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). [https://books.google.com/books?id=p2QnPijAEmEC&pg=PA979&dq= "Tokugawa Yoshimune"] in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 979.</ref>

Early life
Yoshimune was the son of Tokugawa Mitsusada, the grandson of Tokugawa Yorinobu, and the great-grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Shogun
Yoshimune was the eighth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate.

Yoshimune's government worked to control the price of rice.  This earned him the nickname "Rice Shogun" or "Shogun of Rice" (kome-shōgun'').Sansom, George Bailey. (1963). A History of Japan, 1615-1867, p. 165.

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