Trying to find a story I heard a long time ago about a “good daimyo” who was, uncharacteristically for a feudal lord, loved by his people

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This is a story that I heard many many years ago, and I’m trying to find out from where it comes.

My recollection of the story:

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Most Lords were feared or resented by their subjects, but that there was one Lord who was beloved by his people, and because of this they helped him in time of war.

They loved him because one year there was a terrible crop failure, leaving the region without sufficient rice to pay the full mandatory rice tax to the shogun. Normally, a Lord would go around to the villages and confiscate all of the stores needed to be able to pay the predetermined tax, leaving the people to suffer starvation and deprivation.

Yet this Lord instead, collected all of his valuables and those of his nobles, and send all of these to another daimyo whose region had a surplus, purchasing enough rice to both pay the daimyo and ensure the people were fed through to the next year.

This caused his people to love this Daimyo, so when war came to his lands, the people rose up to come to his aid unbidden and all volunteered to fight, expanding his armies and allowing him to prevail against an enemy which otherwise would have destroyed him.

The moral of course being, support the people and the people will support you.

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Does this ring a bell with anyone?

If you have heard it before, do you recall where?

And, was it historical? Or merely a morality tale?