Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
That the rules of Hideyoshi's house were not to be altered; and that if, in the administration of public affairs, the five bugyo were unable to determine a course of action, they should consult Hideyori through Ieyasu and Toshiie; or, if necessary before taking action, the Emperor was to be consulted.
Up to that time the shogun himself had served as a court of appeal in important cases. These were first brought before a bugyo, and subsequently, if specially vital issues were at stake, the shogun personally sat as judge, the duty of executing his judgments being entrusted to the bugyo and other officials.
This part of the enterprise was entrusted solely to Asano Nagamasa, minister of Justice, one of the five bugyo, that is to say, five officials called administrators, in whose intelligence and competence Hideyoshi placed signal reliance.
These commissioners numbered thirty-six, and each had his own sphere of duties: as the shonin bugyo, who controlled judicial affairs; the tosen bugyo, who dealt with affairs of foreign trade; the jisha bugyo, who superintended temples and shrines; the onsho bugyo, who had to do with official rewards, etc.
Sometimes, also, the three bugyo met at the Hyojo-sho merely for purposes of consultation. The holder of the latter office served as the eyes and ears of the roju and supervised the feudal barons. There were four or five great censors. Another had to inspect matters relating to religious sects and firearms a strange combination.
In Nagasaki, Sado, Hakodate, Niigata, and other important localities, bugyo were stationed, and in districts under the direct control of the Bakufu the chief official was the daikwan. The governmental system in the fiefs closely resembled the system of the Bakufu. Twenty-one provinces consisted entirely of fiefs, and in the remaining provinces public and private estates were intermixed.
Suits involving issues that lay entirely within the jurisdiction of one bugyo were tried by him in his own residence, but where wider interests were concerned the three bugyo had to conduct the case at the Hyojo-sho, where they formed a collegiate court. On such occasions the presence of the censors was compulsory.
But whatever happen, oh, pray save me, my Bugyo ! Oh, pray take pity on me!" Ah! the simple apology!... But what was her age? Not twelve? not thirteen? not fourteen? Fifteen comes after fourteen. Alas! she was fifteen, and could not be saved! Therefore O-Shichi was sentenced according to the law.
Word Of The Day