kawagoe

Updated: May 6, 2025

Tsunayoshi had at that time a favourite attendant on whom he conferred the rank of Dewa no Kami with an estate at Kawagoe which yielded 100,000 koku annually. The friendship of the shogun for this most corrupt official had its origin in community of literary taste.

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