Background
Tadakuni Mizuno was born on 19 July 1794 in Edo, the second son of Mizuno Tadamitsu, lord of the fief of Karatsu in Hizen; in childhood he went by the name Otogoro.
水野 忠邦
Tadakuni Mizuno was born on 19 July 1794 in Edo, the second son of Mizuno Tadamitsu, lord of the fief of Karatsu in Hizen; in childhood he went by the name Otogoro.
In 1805 he was made heir to his father, and in 1812, at the age of eighteen, became lord of Karatsu and set about reforming the finances of the domain. In 1817 he was made a jisha- bugyo of the Tokugawa shogunate, a high official w'ho had supervision over the temples, shrines, and religious affairs of the country. In the same year he was removed from his former fief in Hizen in Kyushu and made lord of Hamamatsu in Totomi. He continued to rise in office in the shogunate until in 1834, at the age of forty, he became rojii-shuseki, or chief councilor of state, taking over effective control of all affairs of government.
He remained in disgrace for the rest of his life, dying of illness in 1851.