Kyoto Shugoshoku

The Kyōto Shugoshoku (京都守護職, Military Commissioner of Kyoto) was a Japanese bureaucratic office of the Tokugawa shogunate from 1862 through 1868.^[1] The officeholder was responsible for keeping the peace in the city of Kyoto and its environs, and in this role, largely supplanted the extant office of Kyoto Shoshidai, though the two offices existed side by side until 1867, when both were abolished.

Matsudaira Katamori of Aizu held the office for much of its existence, with the exception of a brief period in 1864, when the office was held by Matsudaira Yoshinaga of the Fukui Domain.^[2]

List of Kyoto shugoshoku

• Matsudaira Katamori (1862–1864, 1864–1868).^[2]
• Matsudaira Yoshinaga, also known as Matsudaira Keiei (1864).^[2]

See also

• Bugyō

Notes

1. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Kyōto-shugoshoku" in Japan Encyclopedia, p. 587, p. 587, at Google Books; n.b., Louis-Frédéric is pseudonym of Louis-Frédéric Nussbaum, see Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Authority File Archived 2012-05-24 at archive.today.
2. Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868, p. 335.

References

• Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868. London: Oxford University Press; reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-713508-2
• Noguchi Shin'ichi (2005). Aizu-han. Tokyo: Gendai shokan.
• Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-01753-5; OCLC 58053128