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Reconstruction of the residence of the North Edo machi-bugyō in present-day Tokyo.

Bugyō (奉行ぶぎょう) was a title assigned to samurai officials in feudal Japan. Bugyō is often translated as commissioner, magistrate, or governor, and other terms would be added to the title to describe more specifically a given official's tasks or jurisdiction.

Pre-Edo period[edit]

In the Heian period (794–1185), the post or title of bugyō would be applied only to an official with a set task; once that task was complete, the officer would cease to be called bugyō. However, in the Kamakura period (1185–1333) and later, continuing through the end of the Edo period (1603–1868), posts and titles came to be created on a more permanent basis. [1] Over time, there came to be 36 bugyō in the bureaucracy of the Kamakura shogunate.[2]

In 1434, Ashikaga Yoshinori established the Tosen-bugyō to regulate foreign affairs for the Ashikaga shogunate.[1]

In 1587, a Japanese invading army occupied Seoul; and one of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's first acts was to create a bugyō for the city, replicating a familiar pattern in an unfamiliar setting.[3]

Edo period[edit]

During the Edo period, the number of bugyō reached its largest extent as the bureaucracy of the Tokugawa shogunate expanded on an ad hoc basis, responding to perceived needs and changing circumstances.

List[edit]

  • Edo machi-bugyō (江戸えどまち奉行ぶぎょう) – Magistrates or municipal administrators of Edo.[4]
  • Fushin-bugyō (普請ふしん奉行ぶぎょう) – Superintendents of Public Works.[6]
  • Gaikoku-bugyō (外国がいこく奉行ぶぎょう) – Commissioners in charge of trade and diplomatic relations with foreign countries after 1858.[7]
  • Gunkan-bugyō (ぐんかん奉行ぶぎょう) – Commissioners in charge of naval matters (post-1859).[7]
  • Gusoku-bugyō (具足ぐそく奉行ぶぎょう) – Commissioners in charge of supplying the shogunal armies.
    • Bugu-bugyō (武具ぶぐ奉行ぶぎょう) – Commissioners in charge of supplying the shogunal armies (post-1863), replaced Gusoku-bugyō.
  • Hakodate bugyō (はこかん奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseers of the port of Hakodate and neighboring territory of Ezo.[7]
  • Haneda bugyō (羽田はた奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseers of the port of Haneda; commissioners of coastal defenses near Edo (post-1853).[8]
  • Hyōgo bugyō (兵庫ひょうご奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseers of the port of Hyōgo (post-1864).[9]
  • Jisha-bugyō (寺社じしゃ奉行ぶぎょう) – Ministers or administrators for religious affairs; overseers of the country's temples and shrines.[10]
  • Jiwari-bugyō (地割じわり奉行ぶぎょう)- Commissioners of surveys and surveying.[11]
  • Kanagawa bugyō (神奈川かながわ奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseers of the port of Kanagawa (post-1859).[12]
  • Kanjō-bugyō (勘定かんじょう奉行ぶぎょう) – Ministers or administrators for shogunal finance (post-1787).[13]
    • Gundai (郡代ぐんだい)– Deputies.[6]
    • Daikan (代官だいかん)- Deputies.[6]
    • Kane-bugyō (きむ奉行ぶぎょう) – Superintendents of the Treasury.
    • Kura-bugyō (倉庫そうこ奉行ぶぎょう) – Superintendents of Cereal Stores.[6]
    • Kinza (金座きんざ) – Gold za or monopoly office (post-1595).[14]
    • Ginza (銀座ぎんざ) – Silver za or monopoly office (post-1598).[14]
    • Dōza (銅座どうざ) – Copper za or monopoly office (post-1636)[14] and (1701–1712, 1738–1746, 1766–1768).[15]
    • Shuza (しゅ) – Cinnabar za or monopoly office (post-1609).[16]
  • Kanjō-ginmiyaku – Comptrollers of Finance.[6]
  • Kantō gundai – Kantō deputies.[6]
  • Kinzan-bugyō (金山かなやま奉行ぶぎょう) – Commissioners of mines.[17]
  • Kyoto shoshidai (京都きょうと所司代しょしだい) -- Shogunal representatives at Kyoto.[18]
  • Machi-bugyō (町奉行まちぶぎょう) – Magistrates or municipal administrators in shogunal cities: Edo, Kyoto, Nagasaki, Nara, Nikkō, and Osaka.[18]
  • Nagasaki bugyō (長崎ながさき奉行ぶぎょう) – Governor of Nagasaki.[22]
  • Niigata bugyō (新潟にいがた奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseers of the port of Niigata.
  • Nikkō bugyō (日光にっこう奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseers of Nikkō.[23]
  • Osaka jōdai (大阪おおさか城代じょうだい) – Overseers of Osaka Castle.[24]
  • Rōya-bugyō (牢屋ろうや奉行ぶぎょう) – Commissioners of the shogunal prison.[25]
  • Sado bugyō (佐渡さど奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseers of the island of Sado.[26]
  • Sakuji-bugyō (作事さくじ奉行ぶぎょう) – Commissioners of works (post-1632).[27]
  • Shimoda bugyō (下田しもだ奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseers of the port of Shimoda.[28]
  • Sumo-bugyō (相撲すもう奉行ぶぎょう) – Ancestors of the function of gyōji. Officials during the Kamakura shogunate in charge of refereeing sumo matches at the imperial court.[29]
  • Sunpu jōdai (駿府すんぷ城代じょうだい) – Overseers of Sunpu Castle.[24]
  • Uraga bugyō (浦賀うらが奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseers of the port of Uraga.[30]
  • Yamada bugyō (山田やまだ奉行ぶぎょう) -- Representatives of the shogunate at Ise.[31]
  • Zaimoku-ishi bugyō (材木ざいもくせき奉行ぶぎょう) - Overseer of construction materials for the Shōgun's properties (from 1647)[32]
  • Zen bugyō (ぜん奉行ぶぎょう) – Overseer of victuals for the Shōgun's table[32]

Meiji period[edit]

In the early years of the Meiji Restoration, the title of bugyō continued to be used for government offices and conventional practices where nothing else had been created to replace the existing Tokugawa system. For example, the commander-in-chief of artillery under the early Meiji government was called the Hohei-bugyō.[33] As the new government passed its numerous reforms, the term bugyō was soon phased out of usage.

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ a b Kinihara, Misako. The Establishment of the Tosen-bugyō in the Reign of Ashikaga Yoshinori (唐船とうせん奉行ぶぎょう成立せいりつ : 足利あしかが義教よしのりによる飯尾いいおさだれん登用とうよう), Tokyo Woman's Christian University. Essays and S.tudies. Abstract.
  2. ^ Brinkley, Frank et al. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 436.
  3. ^ Cullin, Louis. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582–1941, p. 27.
  4. ^ Screech, Timon. (2006). Secret Memoirs of the Shoguns: Isaac Titsingh and Japan, 1779-1822, p. 243 n113.
  5. ^ a b Cunningham, Don. (2004). Taiho-Jutsu: Law and Order in the Age of the Samurai, p. 42.
  6. ^ a b c d e f Jansen, Marius. (1995). Warrior Rule in Japan, p. 186, citing John Whitney Hall. (1955). Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  7. ^ a b c Beasley, William. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 322.
  8. ^ Cullen, p. 170.
  9. ^ Beasley, p. 323.
  10. ^ Screech, p. 245 n35; Beasley, p. 323.
  11. ^ Naito, Akira et al. (2003). Edo: the City that Became Tokyo, p. 26.
  12. ^ Beasley, p. 324.
  13. ^ Screech, p. 19; Beasley, p. 324; Roberts, Luke Shepherd. (1998). Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th Century Tosa, p. 207.
  14. ^ a b c Jensen, p. 186; Schaede, Ulrike. (2000). Cooperative Capitalism: Self-Regulation, Trade Associations, and the Antimonopoly Law in Japan, p. 223.
  15. ^ Shimada, Ryuto. (2005). The Intra-Asian Trade in Japanese Copper by the Dutch East India Company, p. 51.
  16. ^ Takekoshi, Yosaburo. (1930). The economic aspects of the history of the civilization of Japan, p. 238.
  17. ^ Hall, John Whitney. (1955) Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan, p. 201
  18. ^ a b c Beasley, p. 325.
  19. ^ Sasama Yoshihiko. (1995). Edo machi-bugyō jiten, p. 11; Screech, p. 19.
  20. ^ Murdoch, James. (1996) A History of Japan, p. 10; Jansen, Marius B. (1995). Sakamoto Ryoma and the Meiji Restoration, p. 226.
  21. ^ Murdoch, p. 10;
  22. ^ Screech, p. 12; Beasley, p. 326.
  23. ^ Screech, p. 241 n69.
  24. ^ a b c Murdoch, p. 9.
  25. ^ Sasama, p. 152.
  26. ^ Cullen, p. 112.
  27. ^ Coaldrake, William H. (1996) Architecture and Authority in Japan, p. 178.
  28. ^ Beasley, p. 329.
  29. ^ Cuyler, Patricia Lee (1979). Sumo: From rite to sport. New York: Weatherhill. p. 73. ISBN 9780834801455.
  30. ^ Cullen, p. 173; Beasley p. 330.
  31. ^ Murdoch, p. 334.
  32. ^ a b Papinot, E (1910). Historical and Geographical Dictionary of Japan. Tuttle (reprint). p. 763. ISBN 0804809968.
  33. ^ Van de Polder, Léon. (1891). "Abridged History of the Copper Coins of Japan," Transactions of the Asiatic Society of Japan p. 419-500.

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