yuya

Updated: May 14, 2025

Once, indeed, during the time of the second shogun, Hidetada, a municipal administrator, Shimada Yuya, having held the office for more than twenty years, and having come to be regarded as conspicuously expert in rendering justice, it was proposed to the shogun that the judgments delivered by this administrator should be recorded for the guidance of future judges.

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