Mizuno Tadatomo
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{{nihongo|Mizuno Tadatomo|水野 忠友||1731–1802}} was a Japanese samurai of the Edo period.
Career
Mizuno was an official in the Tokugawa shogunate. He was a junior counselor (wakadoshiyori) in the 1770s.Screech, Timon. (2012). [https://books.google.com/books?id=qa3ZnlfJZCoC&pg=PT260 Japan Extolled and Decried: Carl Peter Thunberg's Travels in Japan 1775–1776, p. 260 n71]. From 3 November 1871 to 3 May 1788, he was a senior counselor (rōjū) at the top of the shōgun{{'}}s hierarchy.Rathbone, Jim. (2006). [https://books.google.com/books?id=B84li2uZtAIC&pg=PT59 James Mitose and the Path of Kenpo, p. 159].
In the political struggles of his time, he was a member of the faction headed by Tanuma Okitsugu.MacClain, James L. et al. (1997). [https://books.google.com/books?id=-qOuykzxhKUC&pg=PA414 Edo and Paris: Urban Life and the State in the Early Modern Era, p. 414]. He managed to survive Tanuma's downfall; and he worked for a time with Matsudaira Sadanobu.Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. (2006). [https://books.google.com/books?id=iTZkAAAAMAAJ&q=Mizuno+Tadatomo Thinking like a man: Tadano Makuzu (1763–1825), p. 84 n70].
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