Difference between revisions of "Doshin"
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| − | ''Dôshin'' were | + | ''Dôshin'' were patrolmen who served under ''[[yoriki]]'' (constables), and answered to the Edo City Magistrates (''[[machi bugyo|Edo machi bugyô]]''). There were typically around two hundred ''doshin'' active in [[Edo]].<ref>Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 51.</ref> |
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- Japanese: 同心 (doushin)
Dôshin were patrolmen who served under yoriki (constables), and answered to the Edo City Magistrates (Edo machi bugyô). There were typically around two hundred doshin active in Edo.[1]
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 319.
- ↑ Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), Edo & Paris, Cornell University Press (1994), 51.
