was a position within the system for the administration of religion that existed from the

Muromachi period The , also known as the , is a division of Japanese history running from approximately 1336 to 1573. The period marks the governance of the Muromachi or Ashikaga shogunate ( or ), which was officially established in 1338 by the first Muromachi ...

to the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

in Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were always ''

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'', the lowest-ranking of the shogunate offices to be so restricted.Beasley, William G. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868'', p. 323. This

shogunate , officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamak ...

title assigns an official the responsibility of suspervising shrines and temples. This was considered a high-ranking office, ranked only slightly below that of '' wakadoshiyori'' but above all other ''

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 ...

.''

List of ''jisha-bugyō''

: * Tsuda Masatoshi (?-1650) *

Ōoka Tadasuke was a Japanese samurai in the service of the Tokugawa shogunate. During the reign of Tokugawa Yoshimune, as a magistrate () of Edo, his roles included chief of police, judge and jury, and Yamada Magistrate () prior to his tenure as South Ma ...

(1736–1751) *

Kuze Hirochika was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the late Edo period, who ruled the Sekiyado Domain. He served as a rōjū in the Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from ...

(1843–1848) *

Naitō Nobuchika , was the 7th Naitō ''daimyō'' of Murakami Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. He was also known as Naitō Nobumoto (内藤信思). His courtesy title was ''Kii-no-kami''.Beasley, William G. (1955). ''Select Documents o ...

(1844–1848) * Matsudaira Tadakata (1845) * Matsudaira Nobuatsu (1848–1885)Beasley, p. 336. * Andō Nobumasa (1852–1858) * Itakura Katsukiyo (1857–1859, 1861–1862) * Honjō Munehide (1858–1861) * Mizuno Tadakiyo (1858–1861) * Inoue Masanao (1861–1862)Beasley, p. 333. *

Makino Tadayuki was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the late Edo period.Meyer, Eva-Maria"Gouverneure von Kyôto in der Edo-Zeit". University of Tübingen (in German). The Makino were identified as one of the '' fudai'' or insider ''daimyō'' clans which were heredit ...

(1862)Dunning, Eric ''et al.'' (2003)
''Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology'', p. 189.
/ref> * Matsudaira Yasunao (1865)

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* Beasley, William G. (1955)
''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868''.
London:

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. eprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)">RoutledgeCurzon.html" ;"title="eprinted by RoutledgeCurzon">eprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)* Dunning, Eric and Dominic Malcolm. (2003)
''Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology''.
London: Taylor & Francis. * Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia''.
Cambridge:

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List of ''jisha-bugyō''

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