Online dictionary of history and traditions in Japan: Tanuma Okitsugu

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Tanuma Okitsugu

田沼意次
alternative words: Okitsugu Tanuma
keywords: northern territory , statesman
related topics: Edo period , Hatamoto , Daimyo , Roju
related web sites: http://village.infoweb.ne.jp/~tanuma/010intro/okitsugu.htm , http://homepage2.nifty.com/haduki/jidaihaikei.htm
explanation: Born in 1719 in a hatomoto family and engaged as a page by Tokugawa Ieshige who would become later the 9th shogun. So he entered Edo castle and gradually rise his position to become a daimyo and a roju. His policy is characterized by active economic plans such as promotion of guilds, patents and exploitation of new rice fields and mines. He planed also to exploit Hokkaido but never realized because he lost the power after the scandal due to a bribery. He died in 1788.

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