Ninomiya Sontoku

Ninomiya Sontoku , also known as Ninomiya Kinjirō, was a Japanese agricultural reformer. His parents died when he was a teen, but through hard work and diligence, he rebuilt his fallen family at the age of 20. Later, he rebuilt approximately 600 villages and became a shogunate retainer. His ideas and actions were inherited as the Hōtokusha Movement.