were officials of the

Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. The Tokugawa shogunate was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu after victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, ending the civil wars ...

in Amagasaki Domain, during the

Edo period The , also known as the , is the period between 1600 or 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when the country was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and some 300 regional ''daimyo'', or feudal lords. Emerging from the chaos of the Sengok ...

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. Appointments to this prominent office were usually ''

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 admin ...

'', but this was amongst the senior administrative posts open to those who were not daimyō.Beasley, William G. (1955). ''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868'', p. 325. Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner", "overseer" or "governor".

History

The port at Hyōgo was originally known as the , as described in the

Nihon Shoki The or , sometimes translated as ''The Chronicles of Japan'', is the second-oldest book of classical Japanese history. It is more elaborate and detailed than the , the oldest, and has proven to be an important tool for historians and archaeol ...

and other records describing the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in 201 AD. For most of its history, this coastal area was not a single political entity. During the

, the eastern parts of present-day

Kobe Kobe ( ; , ), officially , is the capital city of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. With a population of around 1.5 million, Kobe is Japan's List of Japanese cities by population, seventh-largest city and the third-largest port city after Port of Toky ...

came under the jurisdiction of the Amagasaki Domain and the western parts were encompassed within the Akashi Domain, and the center was controlled directly by the

. This ''

bakufu , officially , was the title of the military rulers of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, except during parts of the Kamak ...

'' title identifies an official responsible for administration of that port area at Hyōgo (modern

). The office was created in December 1864; and initially there was only one ''bugyō'' until the position was allowed to lapse in December 1865. In 1867, the office was restored; and thereafter, there were always two bugyō. During this period, Hyogo came to rank with the largest urban centers, some of which were designated as a "shogunal city". The number of such cities rose from three to eleven under Tokugawa administration.

List of Hyōgo ''bugyō''

: * Shibata Takenada (1868).Hanashiro, Roy S. (1999)
''Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868–1875'', p. 31 n.104.
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Notes

References

* Beasley, William G. (1955)
''Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868''.
London:

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. eprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)">RoutledgeCurzon.html" ;"title="eprinted by RoutledgeCurzon">eprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)* Cullen, Louis M. (2003)
''A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds''.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 0-521-82155-X (cloth) -- (paper) * Hanashiro, Roy S. (1999)
''Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868–1875''.
Leiden: Brill. {{DEFAULTSORT:Hyogo Bugyo Government of feudal Japan Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate

History

List of Hyōgo ''bugyō''

See also

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