What Was the "Major Incident that Shook Edo" that Led to Tanuma Okitsugu's Unprecedented Rise to Fame?

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A manga look back at the historical drama "Berabou" every Saturday at 13:50. The focus of the 26th episode will be on the "rising rice price." Following last year's poor harvest, this year's great eruption of Mt. Asama and other factors led quick-witted merchants to raise prices, causing rice prices to soar to twice what they were last year, forcing Tanuma Okitsugu into a corner. It is extremely ironic that Tanuma, who advocates mercantilism and…

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Tanuma Okitsugu's father, Okitsugu, who became a senior councilor in the Tokugawa Shogunate, served the eighth Shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, as a page and then a Shogunate vassal (Hatamoto). His son, Okitsugu, began his career as a page to Yoshimune's successor, Tokugawa Ieshige (1734).