| Ôkubo Tadahiro was a [[Tokugawa shogunate]] official who served in several ''[[bugyo|bugyô]]'' (Magistrate) positions in the [[Bakumatsu period]]. | | Ôkubo Tadahiro was a [[Tokugawa shogunate]] official who served in several ''[[bugyo|bugyô]]'' (Magistrate) positions in the [[Bakumatsu period]]. |
− | After serving as ''[[Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' for a time in [[1857]], he was then named ''kinrizuki'' (a shogunate official attached to the imperial court) until [[1859]], when he was reassigned to the position of [[Kyoto]] ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3, 143.</ref> | + | After serving as ''[[Nagasaki bugyo|Nagasaki bugyô]]'' for a time in [[1857]], he was then named ''kinrizuki'' (a shogunate official attached to the imperial court) until [[1859]], when he was reassigned to the position of [[Kyoto]] ''[[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]''.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3, 143.</ref> Toward the end of the 8th month of 1859, he was dismissed from the position of ''[[Nishinomaru rusui]]'' amidst the dismissal and (in some cases) house confinement of a number of prominent officials associated with foreign affairs.<ref>Ishin Shiryô Kôyô 維新史料綱要, vol 3 (1937), 210.</ref> |