 The move all but bankrupted the Manabe clan.The Bakumatsu period Manabe Akikatsu served in a variety of positions in the Tokugawa shogunate, including "Kyoto Shoshidai" and "rōjū", and implemented numerous fiscal reforms.He was also influential in the negotiations for the Harris Treaty and supported Ii Naosuke's "Kōbu gattai" policy towards the Imperial court, after Ii's assassination, he quickly fell from favour, and the domain was reduced to 40,000 "koku".