Tandai

The term tandai (Japanese: 探題) is a Kamakura and Muromachi period colloquialism for any very important governmental, judiciary or military post in a determinate area.^[1] During the Kamakura shogunate, examples of tandai in the east of the country were the shikken and the rensho , in the west of the country and in Kyūshū the Rokuhara tandai and the Chinzei bugyō , also called Chinzei tandai.^[1]

Examples during the Muromachi period were the Chinzei bugyō, also called Kyūshū tandai, Ōshū province's Ōshū tandai and Dewa province's Ushū tandai.^[1]

• Imagawa Sadayo (Kyūshū tandai, 1371-1395)

• Government of feudal Japan

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