He said that this economical weakness was not attributed to the personal weakness of Yoshimune himself but rather attributed commonly to the general upper stratum of samurai society in those days, which was deeply steeped in Confucianism in which business was regarded with contempt.
ただこれは吉宗個人の弱点というよりも、商業蔑視の儒教に強く染まった当時の武家社会上層部全体に共通するものであると述べている。