arai's

Updated: May 9, 2025

Incidentally it is mentioned in Arai's comments that 700,000 ryo were allotted for building an addition to Yedo Castle, and 200,000 ryo for the construction of the deceased shogun's mausoleum, out of which total Hakuseki explicitly charges the officials, high and low alike, with diverting large sums to their own pockets in collusion with the contractors and tradesmen employed on the works.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era