Hyōgo bugyō
Hyōgo bugyō (兵庫奉行) were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate in Amagasaki Domain, during the Edo period of Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were usually fudai daimyō , but this was amongst the senior administrative posts open to those who were not daimyō.[1] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner", "overseer" or "governor".
History
[edit ]The port at Hyōgo was originally known as the Ōwada anchorage (大輪田泊, Ōwada-no-tomari), as described in the Nihon Shoki and other records describing the founding of the Ikuta Shrine by Empress Jingū in 201 AD.[2] For most of its history, this coastal area was not a single political entity. During the Edo period, the eastern parts of present-day Kobe 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 Tokugawa shogunate.[3]
This bakufu title identifies an official responsible for administration of that port area at Hyōgo (modern Kobe). 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.[4]
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.[5]
List of Hyōgo bugyō
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- Shibata Takenada (1868).[6]
See also
[edit ]Notes
[edit ]- ^ Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 325.
- ^ History of Kobe; Archived 2008年06月16日 at the Wayback Machine History of Ikuta Shrine (in Japanese) Archived 2008年04月04日 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ History of City of Ashiya; Archived 2008年06月17日 at the Wayback Machine Old Kobe (in Japanese). Archived 2008年04月20日 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Beasley, p. 323.
- ^ Cullen, Louis M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds, p. 159.
- ^ Hanashiro, Roy S. (1999). Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868–1875, p. 31 n.104.
References
[edit ]- 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)]
- Cullen, Louis M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582–1941: Internal and External Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 0-521-82155-X (cloth) -- ISBN 0-521-52918-2 (paper)
- Hanashiro, Roy S. (1999). Thomas William Kinder and the Japanese Imperial Mint, 1868–1875. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-08628-5
