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He attempted to do away with the ''[[kabunakama]]'' guilds, in order to combat monopolies, but this and many of his other reforms were resisted so strongly by the merchants of [[Osaka]] (and others) that he was forced to abandon his efforts.

He attempted to do away with the ''[[kabunakama]]'' guilds, in order to combat monopolies, but this and many of his other reforms were resisted so strongly by the merchants of [[Osaka]] (and others) that he was forced to abandon his efforts.

Personal and political conflicts with [[Manabe Akikatsu]] led to Manabe's resigning as ''rôjû'' in [[1843]].

Personal and political conflicts with [[Manabe Akikatsu]] led to Manabe's resigning as ''rôjû'' in [[1843]]. He was later exiled and placed under house arrest in his place of exile; shogun [[Tokugawa Ieyoshi]] declared him released from these sentences on [[1851]]/2/15, but Tadakuni died the following day, before word reached him of his release.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 1 (1937), 297.</ref>

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