The was a Japanese bureaucratic office 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' ...
from 1862 through 1868.
[Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "''Kyōto-shugoshoku''" in ; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, ''see']
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. The officeholder was responsible for keeping the peace in the city of Kyoto and its environs, and in this role, largely supplanted the extant office of
Kyoto Shoshidai
The was an important administrative and political office in the Tokugawa shogunate. The office was the personal representative of the military dictators Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Kyoto, the seat of the Japanese Emperor, and was adop ...
, though the two offices existed side by side until 1867, when both were abolished.
Matsudaira Katamori
Matsudaira Katamori after the Meiji restoration
was a samurai who lived in Bakumatsu period and the early to mid Meiji period Japan. He was the 9th ''daimyō'' of the Aizu Domain and the Kyoto Shugoshoku (Military Commissioner of Kyoto). He ...
of
Aizu
is the westernmost of the three regions of Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, the other two regions being Nakadōri in the central area of the prefecture and Hamadōri in the east. As of October 1, 2010, it had a population of 291,838. The princi ...
held the office for much of its existence, with the exception of a brief period in 1864, when the office was held by
Matsudaira Yoshinaga of the
Fukui Domain.
[Beasley, William G. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868,'' p. 335.]
List of Kyoto ''shugoshoku''
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Matsudaira Katamori
Matsudaira Katamori after the Meiji restoration
was a samurai who lived in Bakumatsu period and the early to mid Meiji period Japan. He was the 9th ''daimyō'' of the Aizu Domain and the Kyoto Shugoshoku (Military Commissioner of Kyoto). He ...
(1862–1864, 1864–1868).
*
Matsudaira Yoshinaga, also known as
Matsudaira Keiei (1864).
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 official ...
Notes
References
* Beasley, William G. (1955)
''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868.''London:
Oxford University Press
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; reprinted by
RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001.
* Noguchi Shin'ichi (2005). ''Aizu-han''. Tokyo: Gendai shokan.
* Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005)
''Japan encyclopedia.''Cambridge:
Harvard University Press.
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1862 establishments in Japan
1867 disestablishments
Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate
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