were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate

Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the and the , was a feudal regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family. This period is known as the Edo period and gets its name from the capital city, Edo, which is now called Tokyo, after the name was...

 in Edo period

Edo period

The , or , is a division of Japanese history which was ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family, running from 1603 to 1868. The political entity of this period was the Tokugawa shogunate....

 Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were usually fudai

Fudai

was a class of daimyo who were hereditary vassals of the Tokugawa in Edo period Japan. It was primarily the fudai who filled the ranks of the Tokugawa administration.-Origins:...

daimyō

Daimyo

is a generic term referring to the powerful territorial lords in pre-modern Japan who ruled most of the country from their vast, hereditary land holdings...

. Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor."

This bakufu title identifies an official with responsibility for finance. The office of kanjō-bugyō was created in 1787 to upgrade the status and authority of the pre-1787 finance chief (kanjō-gashira).

This was a high ranking office, in status roughly equivalent to that of gaikoku-bugyō or expressed differently, the status of this office ranked slightly below that of daimyo, ranking a little below the machi-bugyō. The number of kanjō bugyō varied, usually five or six in the late Tokugawa period.

The kanjō-bugyō was considered to rank approximately with the gunkan-bugyō

Gunkan-bugyo

, also known as kaigun-bugō, were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were usually fudai daimyō. Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor."This bakufu tile identifies an...

. The kanjō-gimmiyaku were bakufu officials of lower rank who were subordinate to the kanjō-bugyō.

List of kanjō-bugyō

• Umezo Masagake
• Matsudaira Chikanao (1844–1857).
• Kawaji Toshiaki (1852–1858). -- negotiated Shimoda Treaty
• Mizuno Tadanori (1855–1858, 1859).
• Toki Tomoaki (1857–1859).
• Nagai Naomune (1858).
• Takenuchi Tasunori (1861–1864).
• Oguri Tadamasa (1863, 1864–1865).
• Matsuaira Yasunao (1863–1864).
• Inoue Kiyonao (1864–1866).
• Kawazu Sukekuni (1867).
• Kurimoto Sebei (1867).
• Kan'o Haruhide
• Honda Yashuhide.
• Hagiwara Shigehide.