Kanjō-bugyō
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Kanjō-bugyō (勘定奉行 kanjō-bugyō?) were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were usually fudai daimyō.[1] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor."
This bakufu title identifies an official with responsibility for finance. The office of kanjō-bugyō was created in 1787 to upgrade the status and authority of the pre-1787 finance chief (kanjō-gashira).[2]
This was a high ranking office, in status roughly equivalent to that of gaikoku-bugyō or expressed differently, the status of this office ranked slightly below hat of daimyo, ranking a little below the machi-bugyō. The number of kanjō bugyō varied, usually five or six in the late Tokugawa period.[1]
The kanjō-bugyō was considered to rank approximately with the gunkan-bugyō.[3] The kanjō-gimmiyaku were bakufu officials of lower rank who were subordinate to the kanjō-bugyō.[1]
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[edit] List of kanjō-bugyō
- Revisions and sourced additions are welcome.
- Matsudaira Chikanao (1844-1857).[4]
- Kawaji Toshiaki (1852-1858).[5]
- Mizuno Tadanori (1855-1858, 1859).[6]
- Toki Tomoaki (1857-1859).[7]
- Nagai Naomune (1858).[8]
- Takenuchi Tasunori (1861-1864).[9]
- Oguri Tadamasa (1863, 1864-1865).[8]
- Matsuaira Yasunao (1863-1864).[10]
- Inoue Kiyonao (1864-1866).[11]
- Kawazu Sukekuni (1867).[5]
- Kurimoto Sebei (1867).[4]
- Kan'o Haruhide[12]
- Honda Yashuhide.[13]
- Hagiwara Shigehide.[14]
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b c Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868, p. 324.
- ^ Roberts, Luke Shepherd. (1998). Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th Century Tosa, p. 207.
- ^ Beasley, p. 322.
- ^ a b Beasley, p. 335.
- ^ a b Beasley, p. 334.
- ^ Beasley, p. 337.
- ^ Besley, p. 341.
- ^ a b Beasley, p. 338.
- ^ Beasley, p. 340.
- ^ Beasley, p. 336.
- ^ Beasley, p. 333.
- ^ Screech, Timon. (2006) Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822, p. 241 n69. Simultaneously Nikkō bugyō until 1746.
- ^ Beasley, p. 107.
- ^ Sansom, George Bailey. (1963). A history of Japan, p. 27.
[edit] References
- Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868. London: Oxford University Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. 10-ISBN 0-197-13508-0; 13-ISBN 978-0-197-13508-2 (cloth)]
- Roberts, Luke Shepherd. (1998). Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th Century Tosa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 10-ISBN 0-521-89335-6
- Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822. London: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 0-7007-1720-X
