hikitsuke-shii

Updated: May 15, 2025

*The Hikitsuke-shii, a body of men who kept the archives of the Man-dokoro and conducted preliminary judicial investigations. It was organized in Tokiyori's, time and from its members the Hyojoshu was recruited. The other was Ooka Tadasuke of the Tokugawa period.

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