Yoriki

Japanese: 与力 (yoriki)

Yoriki were samurai officials in the service of a magistrate (bugyô) and ranking above the dôshin. About fifty yoriki were active in Edo, and answered to the Edo City Magistrates (Edo machi bugyô).^[1]

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References

Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 324.

↑ Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), Edo & Paris, Cornell University Press (1994), 51.

[1] Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), Edo & Paris, Cornell University Press (1994), 51.

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