Honda Toshiaki

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Honda Toshiaki (本多 利明 1744-1821 born in Murakami, Niigata Prefecture) was a Japanese political economist in the late Edo period.

Born in Echigo, Toshiaki came to Edo to study astronomy, mathematics and Kendo. At the age of 24, he opened his own school.

He wrote Keisei Hisaku, in which he proposed lifting a ban of a foreign trade and colonization of Ezo.

He died in 1820.