agata-nushi

Updated: May 5, 2025

There is reason to think that these appointments were designed to extend the prestige of the Court rather than to facilitate the administration of provincial affairs. The latter duty was entrusted to officials called kuni-no-miyatsuko and agata-nushi, which may be translated "provincial governor" and "district headman."

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era