Shigehide Ogiwara

Japanese: 荻原重秀 - おぎわら・しげひで

Year of death: 26 September 1713 (13 November 1713)
Year of birth: Manji 1 (1658)
A shogunate official in the early and mid-Edo period. Commonly known as Gozaemon or Hikojiro. Second son of shogunate official Jusuke Taneshige. In 1674 he became a shogunate official, and the following year was awarded 150 bales of rice. In 1683 he was promoted to shogunate official and given an additional 100 bales of rice. In 1687 he was ordered to audit the accounts of the sodaikan (general official), and in the same year he was promoted to shogunate official sasozoeyaku (later shogunate ginmiyaku) with an additional 300 koku, his bales of rice were changed to 550 koku as a local chigyotori. In 1689 he was awarded 200 koku, and in 1689 he was awarded 1,000 koku. The following year he was promoted to shogunate official, and given an additional 250 koku, and appointed as Omi no Kami (Junior Fifth Rank). He was further granted an additional 500 koku in 1711, 700 koku in 1705, and 500 koku in 1709, giving him a total of 3,700 koku of land. He led the shogunate's finances from the latter half of the Tokugawa Tsunayoshi era through to the Tokugawa Ienobu era, but was ousted in 1712 after being impeached by Arai Hakuseki. His proactive response to the commodity economy, such as coinage reform and trade policies, can be commended, but on the other hand, it cannot be denied that corruption arose as a result of his ties with merchants.

(Masami Fukai)

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Japanese:

没年：正徳3.9.26(1713.11.13)
生年：万治1(1658)
江戸前・中期の幕臣。通称は五左衛門,彦次郎。幕臣十助種重の次男。延宝2(1674)年勘定となり,翌年廩米150俵を給さる。天和3(1683)年勘定組頭に進み,100俵加増。貞享4(1687)年総代官の会計検査を命じられ,その年勘定頭差添役(のちの勘定吟味役)に昇進し,300石加増,廩米を改められて550石の地方知行取となる。元禄2(1689)年200石,8年1000石加増。翌9年には勘定頭に進み,250石を加増され,従五位下近江守に叙任。さらに11年500石,宝永2(1705)年700石,7年500石を加増され,計3700石の知行取となる。徳川綱吉時代の後半から徳川家宣時代にかけて幕府財政を主導したが,正徳2(1712)年新井白石の弾劾により失脚。貨幣改鋳や貿易政策など,彼の商品経済への積極的な対応は評価できるが,その反面商人との結びつきにより腐敗が生じたことは否定できない。

(深井雅海)

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