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::''Not to be confused with [[rusuiyaku]], a samurai official who oversaw the administration of his [[han|domain's]] mansions and interests in [[Edo]] on behalf of his [[daimyo|lord]].''
*''Established: [[1869]]''
*''Abolished: [[1871]]/8-9 (October)''
*''Japanese'': 留守官 ''(rusukan)''

The ''rusukan'' was a post established by the [[Meiji government]] in [[1869]] to oversee Imperial government in [[Kyoto]] while the [[Meiji Emperor]] took up residence in [[Tokyo]]. Though abolished only two years later, in [[1871]], the existence of the post helps point to the idea that Tokyo was only an ''[[anzaisho]]'', a temporary capital, at least initially, and that the Imperial government continued to be seated in Kyoto until at least 1871.

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==References==
*Takashi Fujitani, ''Splendid Monarchy'', University of California Press (1996), 39.

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