- Tanuma Okitsugu
Infobox_Officeholder | name= Tanuma Okitsugu
nationality=Japanese
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caption=Tanuma Okitsugu
order=Lord of Sagara
term_start= 1767
term_end= 1786
predecessor= Honda Tadanaka
successor= Tanuma Okiaki
birth_date=birth date|1719|9|11|mf=y
birth_place=Edo ,Japan
death_date=death date and age|1788|8|25|1719|9|11|mf=y
death_place=Edo ,Japan
spouse=nihongo|Tanuma Okitsugu|田沼意次| (
September 11 ,1719 ,Edo ,Japan -August 25 ,1788 , Edo) was a "Rōjū " (government official) of theTokugawa shogunate who introduced monetary reform. He was also a daimyo, and ruled the SagaraHan. He was sometimes identified as Tonomo-no-kami. [Screech, Timon. (2006). "Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822," p. 222 n65.]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 insideEdo 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. [Screech, pp. 148-151, 163-170, 248.] Tanuma Okitsugu's son was killed by Sano Masakoto, a "hatamoto ".Notes
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, Isaac. (1820). "Mémoires et Anecdotes sur la Dynastie régnante des Djogouns, Souverains du Japon." Paris: Nepveu.ee also
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Tenmei
*Kuze Hirotami
*Matsudaira Sadanobu
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