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 ...
with responsibility for holding and defending
Sunpu Castle
was a Japanese castle in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. The sobriquet of this feudal fortress was the "Castle of the Floating Isle".Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS)Shizuoka It was also referred to as or .
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(Sunpu''-jō''), also called Shizuoka Castle.
Appointments to the prominent office of castle warden at
Sunpu Domain
was a feudal domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. The domain centered at Sunpu Castle is what is now the Aoi-ku, Shizuoka. From 1869 it was briefly called .
History
During the Muromachi period, Sunpu was the capital of the ...
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 admini ...
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 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
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Beasley, William G. (1955)
''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868''.London:
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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
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