Mizuno Tadatomo

In this Japanese name, the family name is Mizuno.

Mizuno Tadatomo (水野 忠友, 1731–1802) was a Japanese samurai of the Edo Period.

Career

Mizuno was an official in the Tokugawa shogunate. He was a junior counselor (wakadoshiyori) in the 1770s.[1] From 3 November 1871 to 3 May 1788, he was a senior counselor (roju) at the top of the shogun's hierarchy.[2]

In the political struggles of his time, he was a member of the faction headed by Tanuma Okitsugu.[3] He managed to survive Tanuma's downfall; and he worked for a time with Matsudaira Sadanobu.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Screech, Timon. (2012). Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775-1776, p. 260 n71.
  2. ↑ Rathbone, Jim. (2006). James Mitose and the Path of Kenpo, p. 159.
  3. ↑ MacClain, James L. et al. (1997). Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era, p. 414.
  4. ↑ Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. (2006). Thinking like a man: Tadano Makuzu (1763-1825), p. 84 n70.
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