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According to one account, Tosa was during the [[Edo period]] one of the strictest domains in terms of allowing individuals in and out of its borders, with only Satsuma, [[Awa han|Awa]], and [[Hizen han]] being identified as more tightly "closed."<ref>Munemasa Isoo 宗政五十緒, “Tachibana Nankei ‘Saiyūki’ to Edo kōki no kikō bungaku” 橘南谿『西遊記』と江戸後期の紀行文学, in ''Shin-Nihon koten bungaku taikei'' 新日本古典文学大系, vol. 98, (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1991), 442.</ref>
According to one account, Tosa was during the [[Edo period]] one of the strictest domains in terms of allowing individuals in and out of its borders, with only Satsuma, [[Awa han|Awa]], and [[Hizen han]] being identified as more tightly "closed."<ref>Munemasa Isoo 宗政五十緒, “Tachibana Nankei ‘Saiyūki’ to Edo kōki no kikō bungaku” 橘南谿『西遊記』と江戸後期の紀行文学, in ''Shin-Nihon koten bungaku taikei'' 新日本古典文学大系, vol. 98, (Tokyo: Iwanami Shoten, 1991), 442.</ref>
In [[1787]], pleading poverty, ''daimyô'' [[Yamauchi Toyochika]] submitted to the shogunate a request to fulfill his feudal obligations to the shogunate as if he were a ''daimyo'' of half the status (i.e. 100,000 instead of 200,000 ''koku''), on a temporary basis, for just ten years. After much consideration, this request was granted. Requests to extend it ten years later, and ten years after that, were also approved, and Tosa continued to perform its duties at a halved level through [[1816]].<ref>Roberts, ''Mercantilism'', 169.</ref> Around the same time, a group of domain officials, including [[Imakita Sakubei]] and [[Kyutoku Daihachi|Kyûtoku Daihachi]], traveled to Osaka and negotiated with merchants about refinancing the domain's loans; they managed to secure a one-hundred-year long term repayment plan, allowing the domain to begin repaying its loans even while reducing the ''goyôkin'' payments imposed upon local Tosa merchants. By [[1854]], the domain had repaid 83 percent of its debt, and perhaps even more significantly had accumulated no new debt since 1787. While some other domains fell further and further into debt, Tosa recovered its reputation, and soon found itself able to secure new loans from Osaka.
==Bakumatsu==
==Bakumatsu==
