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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.
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.
Dramatic shifts after 1787 in the attitudes of the domainal government, including a reduced devotion to the economy of service to the shogun, and a renewed focus on domestic domainal prosperity based on mercantilist or ''kokueki'' ideas of Tosa's place in an inter-domainal commercial marketplace, led to dramatic changes in the economic stability and financial well-being of the domain's government. Adopting ''kokueki'' attitudes, the government reduced restrictions on well-developed industries such as [[paper]]-making, while maintaining or implementing monopoly privileges on less-developed industries, in order to help them develop. Bans on the export of certain goods were also lifted. The domain also shifted away from relying on fees and levies placed on monopoly merchants, and taxation of production, towards sales taxes and export taxes, allowing the domain government to continue to profit from these cottage industries while at the same time easing domainal centralized hierarchical control over the economy.
==Bakumatsu==
==Bakumatsu==
