Jisha-bugyō

Jisha-bugyō (寺社奉行) was a "commissioner" or an "overseer" of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were always fudai daimyōs, the lowest-ranking of the shogunate offices to be so restricted.^[1] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer".

This bakufu title identifies an official with responsibility for supervision of shrines and temples.^[2] This was considered a high-ranking office, in status ranked only slightly below that of wakadoshiyori but above all other bugyō.^[1]

List of jisha-bugyō

Tsuda Masatoshi (?-1650)
Ōoka Tadasuke (1736–1751)^[3]
Kuze Hirochika (1843–1848)^[4]
Naitō Nobuchika (1844–1848)^[5]
Matsudaira Tadakata (1845)^[6]
Matsudaira Nobuatsu (1848–1885)^[6]
Andō Nobumasa (1852–1858)^[7]
Itakura Katsukiyo (1857–1859, 1861–1862)^[8]
Honjō Munehide (1858–1861)^[9]
Mizuno Tadakiyo (1858–1861)^[10]
Inoue Masanao (1861–1862)^[8]
Makino Tadayuki (1862)^[11]
Matsudaira Yasunao (1865)^[6]

Notes

^ ^a ^b Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 323.
^ Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Jisha-bugyō" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 425., p. 425, at Google Books
^ Manabu Ōishi, ed., Ōoka Tadasuke, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, referred to in Nihon no Rekishi 11, Hiroyuki Inagaki, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
^ Beasley, p. 335.
^ Beaseley, p. 338.
^ ^a ^b ^c Beasley, p. 336.
^ Beasley, p. 331.
^ ^a ^b Beasley, p. 333.
^ Beasley, p. 332.
^ Beasley, p. 337.
^ Dunning, Eric et al. (2003). Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology, p. 189.