Mizuno Tadatomo

In this Japanese name, the surname 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 (rōjū) at the top of the shōgun'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.