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
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having responsibility for architecture and construction matters.
Appointments to this prominent office were usually ''
fudai daimyōs''.
[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'' (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 during the feudal period of 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 offici ...
Notes
References
* Beasley, William G. (1955)
''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868''.
London: Oxford University Press
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''Architecture and Authority in Japan''.
London: Routledge. (paper)
Government of feudal Japan
Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate
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