were officials of the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Tokugawa-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia ...

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 characteriz ...

Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were usually '' fudai daimyōs''. Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor". The work was mainly done at the account office. 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''). 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. The ''kanjō-bugyō'' was considered to rank approximately with the ''

gunkan-bugyō , also known as ''kaigun-bugō,'' were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were usually ''fudai daimyō''.Beasley, William G. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853– ...

''. The ''kanjō-ginmiyaku'' were ''bakufu'' officials of lower rank who were subordinate to the ''kanjō-bugyō''.

Domains

There are also accounts in various Domains, and like the accounts of the shogunate, they were in charge of duties such as finance and tax collection of the domains. The chief executive officer of the Accounts Office is the Kanjo Bugyo, and because of the domain's financial responsibilities, a superior with a relatively high dignity was appointed within the clan . In addition, there was an official of the accountant under the Kanjō bugyō, who was in charge of the business.

List of ''kanjō-bugyō''

* Umezo Masagake * Matsudaira Chikanao (1844–57). *

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(1852–58)—negotiated the Shimoda Treaty. *

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(1855–58, 1859). * Toki Tomoaki (1857–59). *

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(1858). * Takenuchi Tasunori (1861–64). *

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(1863, 1864–65). * Matsuaira Yasunao (1863–64). *

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(1864–66). *

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(1867). *

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(1867). * Kan'o Haruhide. Simultaneously Nikkō ''bugyō'' until 1746. * Honda Yashuhide. *

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