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Okubo Tadazane

1778–1837 · 19th century

Okubo Tadazane was daimyo of the Odawara domain and a senior official of the Tokugawa shogunate, serving as a member of its council of elders (roju). To restore villages ruined by famine and debt, he employed the peasant-born agrarian reformer Ninomiya Sontoku, whose methods of thrift and cooperative improvement became widely influential in Japan.

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Odawara Domain

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