Matsudaira Sadanobu (松平定信, 1759-1829) was a daimyō of the Shirakawa domain (now part of Fukushima Prefecture) and served as senior councillor (rōjū) of the Tokugawa shogunate. He is best remembered as the principal architect of the Kansei Reforms (寛政の改革), implemented from 1787 to 1793. These reforms were the second of three significant efforts by the Tokugawa regime to stabilise its crumbling financial and social order, following the Kyōhō Reforms of the 1720s and preceding the Tempo...
Matsudaira Sadanobu (1758-1829)