Jisha-bugyō

Jisha-bugyō (寺社奉行^?) was a "commissioner" or an "overseer" of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were always fudai daimyō, the lowest-ranking of the shogunate offices to be so restricted.^[1] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer."

This bakufu title identifies an official with responsibility for supervision of shrines and temples.^[2] This was considered a high ranking office, in status ranked only slightly below that of wakadoshiyori but above all other bugyō.^[1]

List of jisha-bugyō

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• Ōoka Tadasuke (1736–1751).^[3]
• Kuze Hirochika (1843–1848).^[4]
• Naitō Nobuchika (1844–1848).^[5]
• Matsudaira Tadakata (1845).^[6]
• Matsudaira Nobuatsu (1848–1885).^[6]
• Andō Nobumasa (1852–1858).^[7]
• Itakura Katsukiyo (1857–1859, 1861–1862).^[8]
• Honjō Munehide (1858–1861).^[9]
• Mizuno Tadakiyo (1858–1861).^[10]
• Inoue Masanao (1861–1862).^[8]
• Makino Tadayuki (1862)^[11]
• Matsudaira Yasunao (1865).^[6]

See also

• Bugyō

Notes

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)]
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• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01753-6; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128