In this Japanese name, the family name is Tanuma.

Tanuma Okitsugu (田沼意次, Tanuma Okitsugu^?) (September 11, 1719, Edo, Japan - August 25, 1788, Edo) was a Rōjū (government official) of the Tokugawa shogunate who introduced monetary reform. He was also a daimyo, and ruled the SagaraHan. He was sometimes identified as Tonomo-no-kami.^[1]

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 inside Edo 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.^[2] Tanuma Okitsugu's son was killed by Sano Masakoto, a hatamoto.

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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, Issac. (1820). Mémoires et Anecdotes sur la Dynastie régnante des Djogouns, Souverains du Japon. Paris: Nepveu.

See also

• Tenmei
• Kuze Hirotami
• Matsudaira Sadanobu

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