Tanuma Okitsugu

(September 11, 1719, Edo, Japan – August 25, 1788, Edo) was a senior counselor (rōjū) of the Tokugawa shogunate.  He is known for the introduction of monetary reform.

 Daimyo 
Tanuma was also a daimyo of the Sagara han.  He used the title Tonomo-no-kami.Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns:  Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822, p. 222 n65.

 Shogunate leader 
The administration of Tanuma was marked by corruption and by inflation of currency.

In 1784 (Tenmei 4), Okitsugu's son was assassinated in front of his father inside Edo Castle. The involvement of senior figures in the bakufu was suspected, but only the assassin was punished.  The result was that liberal reforms and the relaxation of the national isolation policy sakoku were stopped.Screech, pp. 148-151, 163-170, 248.

 Related pages 
 Matsudaira Sadanobu

 Notes 

 More reading 
 Hall, John Whitney. (1955). Tanuma Okitsugu, 1719–1788: Forerunner of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.  OCLC 445621

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