Gunkan-bugyō

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Gunkan-bugyō (軍鑑奉行), also known as kaigun-bugō, were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were usually fudai daimyō.[1] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner", "overseer" or "governor".

This

Treaty of Amity and Commerce, which had been negotiated in 1858 by the American representative, Townsend Harris—the Harris Treaty of 1858).[1]

The gunkan-bugyō was considered to rank approximately with the

kanjō-bugyō.[1]

The genesis of the gunkan-bugyō pre-dates the actual creation of the office.

Kaibō-gakari

The prefix kaibō-gakari meaning "in charge of maritime defense" was used with the titles of some bakufu officials after 1845. This term was used to designate those who bore a special responsibility for overseeing coastal waters, and by implication, for dealing with matters involving foreigners—for example, kaibō-gakari-ōmetsuke which later came to be superseded by the term gaikoku-gakari.[2]

List of gunkan-bugyō

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See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 322.
  2. ^ Beasley, p. 323.
  3. ^ Beasley, p. 337.
  4. ^ a b Beasley, p. 338.
  5. ^ Beasley, p. 333.
  6. ^ a b "Military man", Dictionary of history & traditions in Japan web site.

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