Shigehide Ogiwara was a shogunate finance minister of the middle Edo period.
Background
Shigehide Ogiwara was born in 1658.
Career
He began his career as a lower official in the kanjosho (finance office) of the shogunate and gradually worked his way up until in 1696 he became one of the highest officials in the office with a stipend of 3,500 kohl.
He died in 1713, it is said from self-inflicted starvation.