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