The cabinet members of the shogunate government, including Okitsugu and Takechika MATSUDAIRA, the head of roju, began to reform the government and took the reins of power, with the result that this period was called the Tanuma period.
この頃より老中首座である松平武元など意次を中心とした幕府の閣僚は、数々の幕政改革を手がけ、田沼時代と呼ばれる権勢を握る。