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Ooka Tadasuke (大岡忠相, 1677 - 1752) was a Japanese judge in the reign of Tokugawa Shogonate.
He was highly respected as an incorruptible judge whose achievements included the first fire brigade in Tokyo.
In addition, the figure has taken on a legendary status in a number of stories about his wise and imaginatively unorthodox legal decisions. One of the most famous stories is called "The Case of the Stolen Smell" where he heard the case of a paranoid innkeeper who accused a poor student of literally stealing the fumes of his cooking by eating when the innkeeper was cooking to flavour his dull food. Ooka resolved the matter matter ordering that the student pass the money he had in one hand to his other and ruling that the price of the smell of food is the sound of money.
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