The reforms of 1787 were an important turning point in Tosa history. The most easily identifiable result of these reforms was the restoration of the stability of domain finances. Cost-cutting measures were made possible by a new domainal government desire to limit the costs of Edo life and bakufu duty. The reduced burden on the local economy immediately allowed the people to enter a new period of growth, which focused on increasing the exports of traditional Tosa products and the development of new sustainable industries. The rhetoric of lordly rule remained dominant, but to the degree that the government decreased its role in the pyramidal economy of service centered on the shogun, it increased its role, both in actuality and in rhetoric, in the “internationally” conceived commercial economy.