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Japan (Confucian principles that money was defiling versus the necessity for a cash economy), Yoshimune found it necessary to shelve certain Confucian principles that were hampering his reform process.
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that allowed greater control and taxation. The ban on Western books (minus those relating or referring to Christianity) was lifted to encourage the import of Western knowledge and technology.
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The shogunate's interventions were only partly successful. Intervening factors like famine, floods and other disasters exacerbated some of the conditions which the
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financially solvent, and to some degree, to improve its political and social security. Because of the tensions between
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was the consequence after swarms of locusts devastated crops in agricultural communities around the inland sea.
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to improve its political and social status. These reforms were instigated by the eighth Tokugawa
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The Kyōhō Reforms included an emphasis on frugality, as well as the formation of
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officially recognizes the Dojima Rice Market in Osaka; and bakufu supervisors (
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This reform movement was followed by three others during the Edo period: the
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Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822
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were an array of economic and cultural policies introduced by the
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History of Japan

Nikkō Tōshō-gū
Tokugawa Ieyasu
Tokugawa shogunate
Paleolithic
Jōmon
Yayoi
Kofun
Asuka
Nara
Heian
Former Nine Years' War
Later Three-Year War
Genpei War
Kamakura
Jōkyū War
Mongol invasions
Genkō War
Kenmu Restoration
Muromachi
Nanboku-chō period
Sengoku period
Azuchi–Momoyama
Nanban trade
Imjin War
Battle of Sekigahara
Edo (Tokugawa)
Tokugawa shogunate

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