From 1716 to 1745, the 8th shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune led the Kyōhō Reforms, a roughly three-decade program of fiscal rebuilding and administrative overhaul that is remembered as the first and most successful of the "three great Edo reforms" (alongside Kansei and Tenpō). Rising from the Kii Tokugawa branch to head the main line, Yoshimune donned cotton robes to model austerity and issued sweeping frugality edicts. He introduced the agemai system requiring daimyo to deliver rice in proportion to their koku, promoted the reclamation of new paddies, and stabilized revenue by switching to fixed rice taxes (jōmen). He set up the complaint box (meyasu-bako) to hear commoners, founded the Koishikawa Yōjōsho charity hospital and the "Iroha 48" town firefighting brigades, and in 1742 compiled the Kujikata Osadamegaki, the basic legal and administrative code. The tashidaka system opened the way for merit-based appointments. Yet harsher grain taxes and the Kyōhō famine of 1732 drove peasants into hardship and triggered frequent uprisings. Known as the "rice shogun," Yoshimune is the model for the long-running TV drama "Abarenbō Shogun."