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| Kyoho Reforms - Making the Eight Shogunate of Japan Financially Solvent |
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The Kyoho reforms were a set of reforms instigated by the eighth shogun
of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshimune, that lasted from the beginning of his reign in
1716 until 1736. The reforms were aimed at making the shogunate financially
solvent. Because of the tensions between Confucian ideology and the economic
reality of Tokugawa Japan (Confucian principles that money was defiling vs.
the necessity for a cash economy), Yoshimune found it necessary to shelve
those Confucian principles that were hampering his reform process. |
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