were officials of the
Tokugawa shogunate
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in
Edo period
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Japan.
This ''
bakufu'' title identifies an official with responsibility for superintending all mines, mining and metals-extraction activities in Japan.
[Hall, John Wesley. (1955]
''Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan'', p. 201
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List of ''kinzan-bugyō''
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* Kakizaki Sakuzaemon[Walker, Brett L. (2001)]
''The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800'', p. 57.
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See also
* Bugyō
* '' Kinza'' – Gold ''za'' (monopoly office or guild).
* '' Ginza'' – Silver ''za'' (monopoly office or guild).
* '' Dōza'' – Copper ''za'' (monopoly office or guild).
Notes
References
* Hall, John Wesley. (1955)
''Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan''.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press
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The pres ...
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* Walker, Brett L. (2001)
''The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800''.
Berkeley: University of California Press
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Government of feudal Japan
Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate
Mining in Japan
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