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Kawaji Toshiakira served as ''[[Nara bugyo|Nara bugyô]]'' (Nara City Magistrate) from [[1846]]-[[1851]]. He then served as ''[[Osaka]] [[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]'' from 1851 until [[1852]], as ''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjô bugyô]]'' beginning in 1852, and as ''[[gaikoku bugyo|gaikoku bugyô]]'' (Foreign Affairs Magistrate) for a time, before killing himself in [[1868]] as the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] fell.

Kawaji Toshiakira served as ''[[Nara bugyo|Nara bugyô]]'' (Nara City Magistrate) from [[1846]]-[[1851]]. He then served as ''[[Osaka]] [[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]'' from 1851 until [[1852]], as ''[[kanjo bugyo|kanjô bugyô]]'' beginning in 1852, and as ''[[gaikoku bugyo|gaikoku bugyô]]'' (Foreign Affairs Magistrate) for a time, before killing himself in [[1868]] as the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] fell.

Kawaji was one of three signers of the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]], along with [[Tsutsui Masanori]] and [[Koga Masaru]]; Kawaji and Tsutsui also played prominent roles in a number of other diplomatic events of the time, including negotiation discussions with [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] in [[1853]] to 1854.<ref>Gallery labels, Tôyô Bunko.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35277672813/sizes/l/]</ref>

Kawaji was one of three signers of the [[1854]] [[Treaty of Shimoda]], along with [[Tsutsui Masanori]] and [[Koga Masaru]]; Kawaji and Tsutsui also played prominent roles in a number of other diplomatic events of the time, including negotiation discussions with [[Yevfimy Vasilyevich Putyatin]] in [[1853]] to 1854,<ref>Gallery labels, Tôyô Bunko.[https://www.flickr.com/photos/toranosuke/35277672813/sizes/l/]</ref> and discussions and preparations pertaining to the visit of US consul general [[Townsend Harris]] to Edo in [[1857]].<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 386.</ref>

Following a fire at the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]] in 1854, Toshiakira helped oversee the palace's reconstruction.<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', UC Press (1998), 68.; Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 99.</ref>

Following a fire at the [[Kyoto Imperial Palace]] in 1854, Toshiakira helped oversee the palace's reconstruction.<ref>Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', UC Press (1998), 68.; Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 2 (1937), 99.</ref>