Tyama Kagemoto - Place of Birth, Date of Birth, Age, Wiki, Facts, Net Worth, Birthday, Biography and Family
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About Tyama Kagemoto
- Toyama Kagemoto (Japanese: ????, September 27, 1793 – April 15, 1855) was a hatamoto and an official of the Tokugawa shogunate during the Edo period of Japanese history.
- His ancestry was of the Minamoto clan of Mino Province.
- His father, Kagemichi, was the magistrate of Nagasaki.
- During his youth, Kagemoto left his household due to family conflict and lived among commoners as vagabond.
- Legend says that he acquired tattoo during this period, which is the basis of folklore of tattoo bearing magistrate.
- When he inherited the title of his household, he returned to his samurai post and eventually became magistrate.
- Kagemoto held the posts of Finance Magistrate, North Magistrate, and subsequently the South Magistrate of Edo.
- (The magistrates of Edo acted as chiefs of the police and fire departments and as judges in criminal and civil matters.) When Tokugawa Shogunate instituted Tenpo Reforms, South Magistrate Torii Yozo and Roju Mizuno Tadakuni tried to enforce sumptuary edicts banning theatre and other popular entertainments.
- Kagemoto consistently opposed the implementation of the policy which he believed it to be undue infringement on the livelihood of commoners.
- Together with the fact that he lived among commoners in his youth, this won him tremendous popularity among the people of Edo.
- In 1843, he was ousted from his position as North Magistrate through the machinations of Torii, and although nominally appointed Ometsuke, was out of power.
- Two years later, when Mizuno ousted Torii, Toyama received an appointment as South Magistrate, a post once held by Ooka Tadasuke.
- Toyama's rose to the Lower Junior Fifth rank with the name Toyama Saemon no Jo.
