Akimoto Nagatomo

1546 (age 81)

Japan

His agricultural improvement works in the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Yedo Period. Became a retainer to Ieyasu Tokugawa in 1591, Ieasu gave him the fief of 60,000-koku (Gumma Prefecture) as reward for having induced Lord Kagekatsu Uesugi to surrender to Ieyasu. In governing Soja, he was mindful of agricultural deveolpment, caused a canal to be constructed to irrigate a larrge plot of barren land with waters of the Tone River, with the result that his peasants could reap 27,000 additional koku of rice a year.

Akimoto Nagatomo

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Akimoto Nagatomo was born in 1546. His father was Kagetomo, who served Lord Norimori Uesugi.

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His agricultural improvement works in the Azuchi-Momoyama and early Yedo Period. Became a retainer to Ieyasu Tokugawa in 1591, Ieasu gave him the fief of 60,000-koku (Gumma Prefecture) as reward for having induced Lord Kagekatsu Uesugi to surrender to Ieyasu.

In governing Soja, he was mindful of agricultural deveolpment, caused a canal to be constructed to irrigate a larrge plot of barren land with waters of the Tone River, with the result that his peasants could reap 27,000 additional koku of rice a year.

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