Kyōhō Reforms

The Kyōhō Reforms (享保の改革, kyōhō no kaikaku) were an array of economic and cultural policies introduced by the Tokugawa shogunate between 1722–1730 during the Edo period to improve its political and social status.

[3] The reforms were aimed at making the Tokugawa shogunate financially solvent, and to some degree, to improve its political and social security.

The Kyōhō Reforms included an emphasis on frugality, as well as the formation of merchant guilds that allowed greater control and taxation.

The Kyōhō Reforms relieved this burden somewhat in an effort to gain support for the shogunate from the daimyōs.

Intervening factors like famine, floods and other disasters exacerbated some of the conditions which the shōgun intended to ameliorate.