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 daimyōs, 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

  • Tsuda Masatoshi (?-1650)
  • 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

  1. ^ a b Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 323.
  2. ^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Jisha-bugyō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 425., p. 425, at Google Books
  3. ^ Manabu Ōishi, ed., Ōoka Tadasuke, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, referred to in Nihon no Rekishi 11, Hiroyuki Inagaki, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
  4. ^ Beasley, p. 335.
  5. ^ Beaseley, p. 338.
  6. ^ a b c Beasley, p. 336.
  7. ^ Beasley, p. 331.
  8. ^ a b Beasley, p. 333.
  9. ^ Beasley, p. 332.
  10. ^ Beasley, p. 337.
  11. ^ Dunning, Eric et al. (2003). Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology, p. 189.

References

  • Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868. London: Oxford University Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-713508-2 (cloth)]
  • Dunning, Eric and Dominic Malcolm. (2003). Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology. London: Taylor & Francis. ISBN 0-415-26294-1
  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128
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Tokugawa bureaucracy organization chart

Ōmetsuke
Metsuke
RōjūJisha-bugyō
Tairō
Rōjū-kakuEdo machi-bugyōKita-machi-bugyō
Shōgun
SobayōninGaikoku-bugyōMinami-machi-bugyō
WakadoshiyoriGunkan-bugyōHonjo machi-bugyō
DaimyōGusoku-bugyō
Hakodate bugyō
Haneda bugyō
Gundai
Hyōgo bugyō
Daikan
Kanagawa bugyōKinza (gold monopoly)
Kane-bugyō
Kanjō bugyōGinza (silver monopoly)
Kura-bugyō
Kinzan-bugyōDōza (copper monopoly)
Kyoto shoshidaiKyoto machi-bugyōShuza (cinnabar monopoly)
Nagasaki bugyōFushimi bugyō
Niigata bugyōNara bugyō
Nikkō bugyō
Osaka machi-bugyō
Osaka jōdai
Sakai bugyō
Rōya-bugyō
Sado bugyō
Sakuji-bugyō
Shimada bugyō
Sunpu jōdai
Uraga bugyō
Yamada bugyō
Notes
This bureaucracy evolved in an ad hoc manner, responding to perceived needs.
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Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate
Shōgun
Tairō
Rōjū
Wakadoshiyori
Kyoto shoshidai
Bugyō
Ōmetsuke
  • Yagyū Munenori (1632–1636)
  • Mizuno Morinobu (1632–1636)
  • Akiyama Masashige 1632–1640)
  • Inoue Masashige (1632–1658)
  • Kagazume Tadazumi (1640–1650)
  • Nakane Masamori (1650)
  • Hōjō Ujinaga (1655–1670)
  • Ōoka Tadatane (1670)
  • Nakayama Naomori (1684)
  • Sengoku Hisanao (1695–1719)
  • Shōda Yasutoshi (1699–1701)
  • Sakakibara Tadayuki (1836–1837)
  • Atobe Yoshisuke (1839–1841, 1855–1856)
  • Tōyama Kagemoto (1844)
  • Ido Hiromichi 1853–1855)
  • Tsutsui Masanori (1854–1857)
  • Ōkubo Tadahiro (1862)
  • Matsudaira Yasuhide (1864)
  • Nagai Naoyuki (1864–1865, 1865–1867)
  • Yamaoka Takayuki (1868)
  • Oda Nobushige (1868)
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