todori

Updated: May 10, 2025

They discharged, on account of the senior ministers, the duties of scribes, and were presided over by a todori, who, in later days, wielded large influence. The jisha-bugyo, as their name suggests, supervised all affairs relating to shrines, temples, Shinto officials, bonzes, and nuns as well as persons residing within the domains of shrines and temples.

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