were officials of the
Tokugawa shogunate
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with responsibility for financial accounting or tax administration.
The manner of paying taxes varied according to locality. In the ''Kantō,'' payments were generally made in rice for wet fields and in gold for uplands. In the ''
Kinai'' and western provinces, a slightly different formula was applied; but the payments were also received in both rice and gold. In the case of cash payments, the money would have been taken to
Edo Castle
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Tokugawa Ieyasu established the ...
or to
Osaka Castle where it became the responsibility of ''kane-bugyō''.
The ''kane-bugyō'' in Edo and Osaka were responsible for all accounts associated with such receipts of cash. These were compiled and then subsequently audited by the ''katte-kata''. The entire operation was closely scrutinized by a member of the ''
rōjū'' or the ''
wakadoshiyori''.
[Brinkley, pp. 638–639.]
Some
domains also had the position of ''kane-bugyō''. Two of the
Forty-seven ''rōnin'' had held this position in the
Akō Domain
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and
Maehara Isuke.
List of ''kane-bugyō''
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See also
*
Bugyō
Notes
References
* Brinkley, Frank. (1915)
''A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era''.London:
Encyclopædia Britannica
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* Hall, John Wesley. (1955)
''Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan''.Cambridge:
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Government of feudal Japan
Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate
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