Sunpu jōdai

Castellan of Sunpu Castle in Edo period Japan

Sunpu jōdai (駿府城代) were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate with responsibility for holding and defending Sunpu Castle (Sunpu-jō), also called Shizuoka Castle.[1]

Appointments to the prominent office of castle warden at Sunpu Domain were exclusively fudai daimyōs.[2] Conventional interpretations have construed this Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor".

List of Sunpu jōdai

  • Toki Tomoaki, 1859–1863.[3]

See also

  • Bugyō

Notes

  1. ^ Brinkley, Frank et al.. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 637.
  2. ^ Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 341.
  3. ^ Beasley, Select Documents, pp. 340–341.

References

  • Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868. London: Oxford University Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-713508-2 (cloth)]
  • Brinkley, Frank et al.. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica.
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Tokugawa bureaucracy organization chart

Ōmetsuke
Metsuke
RōjūJisha-bugyō
Tairō
Rōjū-kakuEdo machi-bugyōKita-machi-bugyō
Shōgun
SobayōninGaikoku-bugyōMinami-machi-bugyō
WakadoshiyoriGunkan-bugyōHonjo machi-bugyō
DaimyōGusoku-bugyō
Hakodate bugyō
Haneda bugyō
Gundai
Hyōgo bugyō
Daikan
Kanagawa bugyōKinza (gold monopoly)
Kane-bugyō
Kanjō bugyōGinza (silver monopoly)
Kura-bugyō
Kinzan-bugyōDōza (copper monopoly)
Kyoto shoshidaiKyoto machi-bugyōShuza (cinnabar monopoly)
Nagasaki bugyōFushimi bugyō
Niigata bugyōNara bugyō
Nikkō bugyō
Osaka machi-bugyō
Osaka jōdai
Sakai bugyō
Rōya-bugyō
Sado bugyō
Sakuji-bugyō
Shimada bugyō
Sunpu jōdai
Uraga bugyō
Yamada bugyō
Notes
This bureaucracy evolved in an ad hoc manner, responding to perceived needs.
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Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate
Shōgun
Tairō
Rōjū
Wakadoshiyori
Kyoto shoshidai
Bugyō
Ōmetsuke
  • Yagyū Munenori (1632–1636)
  • Mizuno Morinobu (1632–1636)
  • Akiyama Masashige 1632–1640)
  • Inoue Masashige (1632–1658)
  • Kagazume Tadazumi (1640–1650)
  • Nakane Masamori (1650)
  • Hōjō Ujinaga (1655–1670)
  • Ōoka Tadatane (1670)
  • Nakayama Naomori (1684)
  • Sengoku Hisanao (1695–1719)
  • Shōda Yasutoshi (1699–1701)
  • Sakakibara Tadayuki (1836–1837)
  • Atobe Yoshisuke (1839–1841, 1855–1856)
  • Tōyama Kagemoto (1844)
  • Ido Hiromichi 1853–1855)
  • Tsutsui Masanori (1854–1857)
  • Ōkubo Tadahiro (1862)
  • Matsudaira Yasuhide (1864)
  • Nagai Naoyuki (1864–1865, 1865–1867)
  • Yamaoka Takayuki (1868)
  • Oda Nobushige (1868)
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