Nakatsukasa-sho

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  • Japanese: 中務省 (nakatsukasa shou)

The Nakatsukasa-shô, sometimes translated as Ministry of Central Affairs, was an office under the ritsuryô system which oversaw the keeping of records, the drafting of ordinances, distribution of edicts, and the like.

References

  • Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 322.