contributor
27,126
edits
Changes
no edit summary
*''Japanese'': 代官 ''(daikan)''
During the [[Edo period]], the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] appointed officials to oversee and administer areas of shogunate land, or ''[[tenryo|tenryô]]''; this post, which we might translate as "governor," "magistrate," or "district administrator," was called ''daikan'' in Japanese.
A ''daikan'' typically administered an area worth 50,000 to 100,000 ''[[koku]]'', and maintained residences both in [[Edo]] and in the territory to which he was assigned. Within that territory, he was responsible for overseeing a range of government functions, including infrastructure projects, tax collection, and judicial matters.
==References==
*Craig, Teruko (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988. p159n2.
[[Category:Ranks and Titles]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]
During the [[Edo period]], the [[Tokugawa shogunate]] appointed officials to oversee and administer areas of shogunate land, or ''[[tenryo|tenryô]]''; this post, which we might translate as "governor," "magistrate," or "district administrator," was called ''daikan'' in Japanese.
A ''daikan'' typically administered an area worth 50,000 to 100,000 ''[[koku]]'', and maintained residences both in [[Edo]] and in the territory to which he was assigned. Within that territory, he was responsible for overseeing a range of government functions, including infrastructure projects, tax collection, and judicial matters.
==References==
*Craig, Teruko (trans.). ''Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai''. University of Arizona Press, 1988. p159n2.
[[Category:Ranks and Titles]]
[[Category:Edo Period]]