were officials of the
Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.
The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars ...
having responsibility for architecture and construction matters.
Appointments to this prominent office were usually ''
fudai daimyō
was a class of ''daimyō'' (大名) in the Tokugawa Shogunate (徳川幕府) of Japan who were hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa before the Battle of Sekigahara. ''Fudai daimyō'' and their descendants filled the ranks of the Tokugawa admin ...
s''.
[Beasley, William. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868'', pp. 18–19.] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer".
The office was created on the 3rd day of the 10th month of the ninth year of ''
Kan'ei
was a after '' Genna'' and before ''Shōhō.'' This period spanned the years from February 1624 through December 1644. The reigning emperors and single empress were , and .Titsingh, Isaac. (1834) ''Annales des empereurs du japon'', p. 411./re ...
'' (1632). Three ''sakuji-bugyō'' were appointed at the same time in an effort to tighten administrative controls over what had previously been an ''ad hoc'' army of builders in a diverse array of trades, and in a sense, the appointments could be seen as a response to a number of things which had not gone well in other, earlier construction projects.
[Coaldrake, William H. (1996]
''Architecture and Authority in Japan'', p. 178.
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The three loyal Tokugawa retainers were to become responsible for a number of shogunate building projects in the 1630s. The ''sakuji-bugyō'' was considered to rank approximately with the '' kanjō-bugyō'' and '' machi-bugyō''.[Coaldrake]
p. 179.
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List of ''sakuji-bugyō''
:
* Sakuma Sanekatsu[Screech, Timon. ]
See also
* Bugyō
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 jurisdi ...
Notes
References
* Beasley, William G. (1955)
''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868''.
London: Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford. It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books ...
. eprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)">RoutledgeCurzon.html" ;"title="eprinted by RoutledgeCurzon">eprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)* Coaldrake, William H. (1996
''Architecture and Authority in Japan''.
London: Routledge. (paper)
Government of feudal Japan
Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate
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