 As a result of these various measures, Yonezawa again became fairly prosperous, and did not suffer much from the great famine which swept Japan in the Tenmei era (1781–89).In 1830, the shogunate formally declared Yonezawa to be a choice example of a well-governed domain.The domain had a population of 127,277 people in 23,440 households per the 1870 census.