Kanjō-bugyō

Kanjō-bugyō (勘定奉行) were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were usually fudai daimyōs.[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]

It was a high-ranking office, in status roughly equivalent to a gaikoku-bugyō; the status of this office ranked slightly below that of daimyō, 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-ginmiyaku were bakufu officials of lower rank who were subordinate to the kanjō-bugyō.[1]

List of kanjō-bugyō

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  • Umezo Masagake[4]
  • Matsudaira Chikanao (1844–57).[5]
  • Kawaji Toshiaki (1852–58)[6]—negotiated the Shimoda Treaty.
  • Mizuno Tadanori (1855–58, 1859).[7]
  • Toki Tomoaki (1857–59).[8]
  • Nagai Naomune (1858).[9]
  • Takenuchi Tasunori (1861–64).[10]
  • Oguri Tadamasa (1863, 1864–65).[9]
  • Matsuaira Yasunao (1863–64).[11]
  • Inoue Kiyonao (1864–66).[12]
  • Kawazu Sukekuni (1867).[6]
  • Kurimoto Sebei (1867).[5]
  • Kan'o Haruhide.[13] Simultaneously Nikkō bugyō until 1746.
  • Honda Yashuhide.[14]
  • Hagiwara Shigehide.[15]

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References

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  • Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric; Roth, Käthe (2005), Japan encyclopedia, Cambridge: Harvard University Press, ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5, OCLC 58053128 ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is a pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File.
  • Roberts, Luke Shepherd (1998), Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th Century Tosa, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-89335-6 .
  • Sansom, George Bailey (1963), A history of Japan .
  • Screech, Timon (2006), Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779–1822, London: RoutledgeCurzon, ISBN 0-7007-1720-X .


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