Background
Morishige Kondo was born in 1771. He was also known as Hondo Juzo, he was a hatamoto, or direct vassal of the shogun.
Morishige Kondo was born in 1771. He was also known as Hondo Juzo, he was a hatamoto, or direct vassal of the shogun.
In 1808 he was made an official of the Momijiyama Bunko, the shogunate library in Edo Castle, and for the following eleven years he devoted himself to the writing of works on currency and foreign countries.
In 1819 he was assigned to an administrative post in Osaka and in 1824 to a similar post in Nagasaki, but in 1827 he was punished because of a crime committed by his son and remained out of favor until his death two years later.