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 ...
with responsibility for holding and defending
Sunpu Castle (Sunpu''-jō''), also called Shizuoka Castle.
Appointments to the prominent office of castle warden at
Sunpu Domain were exclusively ''
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 G. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868'', p. 341.] Conventional interpretations have construed this Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor".
List of Sunpu ''jōdai''
:
*
Toki Tomoaki, 1859–1863.
[Beasley, ''Select Documents'', pp. 340–341.]
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
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.
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''A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era''. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica.
Government of feudal Japan
Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate
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