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 ...
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 characteriz ...
Japan. This office was created on July 3, 1859, when five ''
fudai''
daimyō
were powerful Japanese magnates, feudal lords who, from the 10th century to the early Meiji era, Meiji period in the middle 19th century, ruled most of Japan from their vast, hereditary land holdings. They were subordinate to the shogun and n ...
were appointed.
[Beasley, William G. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868,'' p. 324.] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor."
This ''
bakufu'' title identifies an official responsible for administration of the port of
Kanagawa (modern
Yokohama
is the second-largest city in Japan by population and the most populous municipality of Japan. It is the capital city and the most populous city in Kanagawa Prefecture, with a 2020 population of 3.8 million. It lies on Tokyo Bay, south of To ...
. The numbers of men holding the title concurrently would vary over time, fluctuating from as few as five in number in 1859 to as many as nine at one time.
This office was often held concurrently with the office of ''
gaikoku-bugyō''.
List of Kanagawa ''bugyō''
:
*
Mizuno Tadanori
was the 8th and final ''daimyō'' of Numazu Domain in Suruga Province, Honshū, Japan (modern-day Shizuoka Prefecture), and 15th hereditary head of the Numazu-Mizuno clan.
Biography
Mizuno Tadanori was born as the younger son of a ''hatamoto'' o ...
, (1859).
*
Takemoto Masao
Takemoto (written: , , or ) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*, Japanese voice actor
*, Japanese playwright and puppet theatre director
*Iwao Takamoto (1925–2007), American animator, television producer, and film ...
(1859-1860, 1861-1862).
*
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 ...
(1860-1863).
*
Abe Masato (1864-1866).
*
Hayakawa Hisatake[Beasely, p. 204.]
See also
*
Bugyō
Notes
References
*
Beasley, William G. (1955)
''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868.''London:
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Government of feudal Japan
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