Kyoho Reforms

The Kyōhō reforms were a set of reforms instigated by the eighth shogun of Japan, Tokugawa Yoshimune, that lasted from the beginning of his reign in 1716 until 1736.

The reforms were aimed at making the shogunate financially solvent. Because of the tensions between Confucian ideology and the economic reality of Tokugawa Japan (Confucian principles that money was defiling vs. the necessity for a cash economy), Yoshimune found it necessary to shelve certain Confucian principles that were hampering his reform process.