Because he strived to adjust the price of rice in order to stabilize people's lives, Yoshimune TOKUGAWA was called the 'Rice Shogun' and 'Hachiboku Shogun' (after the character for 'rice' [米] separated into hachi [八] and boku [木]).
生活の安定を図って米価の調節に努めたため、「米将軍」と呼ばれ、また「米」の字をばらして「八木（はちぼく）将軍」とも呼ばれた。