machi-bugyo

Updated: May 18, 2025

At first there were three machi-bugyo, but when the Tokugawa moved to Yedo, the number was decreased to one, and subsequently increased again to two in the days of Iemitsu. Judicial business occupied the major part of the machi-bugyo's time. The Bakufu court of law was the Hyojo-sho.

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