was a Japanese

samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...

of the

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional '' daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was characteriz ...

Career

Mizuno was an official in the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Tokugawa-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia ...

. He was a junior counselor ('' wakadoshiyori'') in the 1770s. From 3 November 1871 to 3 May 1788, he was a senior counselor ('' rōjū'') at the top of the ''shōgun''s hierarchy. In the political struggles of his time, he was a member of the faction headed by Tanuma Okitsugu. He managed to survive Tanuma's downfall; and he worked for a time with Matsudaira Sadanobu.Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. (2006)
''Thinking like a man: Tadano Makuzu (1763–1825)'', p. 84 n70

References

Samurai Rōjū 1731 births 1802 deaths {{samurai-stub