A painting of the Dojima Rice Exchange, where merchants would trade rice and rice futures and exchange rice from samurai who were seeking to convert their salaries into hard cash. Source: Public Domain
A portrait of Arai Hakuseki, who essentially controlled the shogunate during the years of both Ienobu’s and Ietsugu’s reigns in the early 1700s. Source: Public Domain
A portrait of Tokugawa Ienobu. Source: Public Domain
A portrait of Tokugawa Ietsugu, cropped from a larger work. Source: Public Domain
A portrait of Tokugawa Yoshimune, who guided Japan through several national crises of governance throughout his reign with somewhat mixed results. Source: Public Domain
A map of Japan with Kii Province highlighted in red. This was where the Wakayama domain was located, where Tokugawa Yoshimune had been serving as daimyo. Source: Ash_Crow, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A portrait of Muro Kyuso, the Neo-Confucian advisor who replaced Arai Hakuseki when Tokugawa Yoshimune was installed as shogun. Source: Public Domain
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