roya-bugyo

Updated: June 28, 2025

In Yedo, the buildings employed as prisons were erected at Demmacho under the hereditary superintendence of the Ishide family. The governor of prisons was known as the roya-bugyo. Each prison was divided into five parts where people were confined according to their social status.

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