For domain duties, rice price rose exceptionally due to the heavy damage by the Tenmei Famine, many people died from starvation, and it was described as 'it was the indescribable year of strained circumstances' in the old record.
藩政においては、天明の大飢饉で大被害を受けて米価が異常高騰し、餓死者が多数出て、古記録には「言語に尽し難き困窮の年柄」とある。