was a "commissioner" or an "overseer" of the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in ...

Edo period The or is the period between 1603 and 1867 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional ''daimyo''. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengoku period, the Edo period was character ...

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. Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer". This ''

bakufu , officially , was the title of the military dictators 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, though during part of the Kamakura ...

'' title identifies an official with responsibility for supervision of shrines and temples. This was considered a high-ranking office, in status ranked only slightly below that of '' wakadoshiyori'' but above all other ''bugyō.''

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 ('' machi-bugyō'') of Edo, his roles included chief of police, judge and jury, and Yamada Magistrate (Yamada bugyō) prior ...

(1736–1751) * Kuze Hirochika (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 was a Japanese ''daimyō'' of the late Edo period. Famed for his tenure as rōjū, Itakura later became a Shinto priest. Biography Itakura, born to the Hisamatsu-Matsudaira of the Kuwana Domain, was adopted by Itakura Katsutsune, the lord o ...

(1857–1859, 1861–1862) * Honjō Munehide (1858–1861) *

Mizuno Tadakiyo was a ''daimyō'' during Bakumatsu period Japan, who served as chief senior councilor (''Rōjū'') in service to the Tokugawa shogunate. Biography Mizuno Tadakiyo was the eldest son of Mizuno Tadakuni, the ''daimyō'' of Hamamatsu Domain and ...

(1858–1861) * Inoue Masanao (1861–1862)Beasley, p. 333. * Makino Tadayuki (1862)Dunning, Eric ''et al.'' (2003)
''Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology'', p. 189.
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Matsudaira Yasunao The was a Japanese samurai clan that descended from the Minamoto clan. It originated in and took its name from Matsudaira village, in Mikawa Province (modern-day Aichi Prefecture). During the Sengoku period, the chieftain of the main line of t ...

(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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