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, or Defense Commissioner of the West, was the name given to a post created in 1186 to oversee the defense of
Kyūshū is the third-largest island of Japan's five main islands and the most southerly of the four largest islands ( i.e. excluding Okinawa). In the past, it has been known as , and . The historical regional name referred to Kyushu and its surround ...
. At the time, the primary mission of the ''Bugyō'' was to seek out and eliminate anyone who had supported Minamoto no Yoshitsune over his brother
Yoritomo was the founder and the first shogun of the Kamakura shogunate of Japan, ruling from 1192 until 1199.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Minamoto no Yoriie" in . He was the husband of Hōjō Masako who acted as regent (''shikken'') after hi ...
to become '' shōgun''. However, less than a hundred years later, the ''Chinzei'' (Western Defense Headquarters) took on the responsibilities of a true Defense Headquarters, acting as the first line of defense against the Mongols. Over time, the position of ''Bugyō'', the head of the Defense Headquarters, became known as ''Chinzei Shugo'' or ''Chinzei Tandai''. This was but one of several similar posts established across the country. The first ''Chinzei Bugyō'' was Amano Tōkage, who was succeeded soon afterwards by Nakawara Nobufusa, who was sent to suppress resistance in Kyūshū. He established the Chinzei at Dazaifu, where he received all the Shogun's orders for Kyūshū; local lords could not be trusted to obey local constables, and so the Kyūshū Tandai (as the ''Chinzei Bugyō'' was sometimes known) had to act as intermediary between Kyūshū and the capital at
Kamakura is a city in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. Kamakura has an estimated population of 172,929 (1 September 2020) and a population density of 4,359 persons per km² over the total area of . Kamakura was designated as a city on 3 November 1939. Kamak ...
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References

*Sansom, George (1958). ''A History of Japan to 1334''. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. pp355, 441. Government of feudal Japan Military history of Japan {{Japan-mil-hist-stub