toshiyori

Updated: May 6, 2025

Generally the Ii, the Hotta, or the Sakai family supplied candidates for the office. The roju or senior ministers called also toshiyori discharged the administration. They resembled the kwanryo of the Muromachi Government.

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