French version
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. | |