Tanuma Okitsugu

In this Japanese name, the family name is Tanuma.

Tanuma Okitsugu (田沼意次) (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.

Tanuma Okitsugu

Daimyo

Tanuma was also a daimyo of the Sagara han. He used the title Tonomo-no-kami.

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.

Related pages

• Matsudaira Sadanobu

Notes

Preceded by Honda Tadanaka

Lord of Sagara 1767-1786

Succeeded by Tanuma Okiaki

More reading

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