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*''Japanese'': 与力 ''(yoriki)''
 
*''Japanese'': 与力 ''(yoriki)''
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''Yoriki'' were [[samurai]] officials in the service of a magistrate (''[[bugyo|bugyô]]'') and ranking above the ''[[doshin|dôshin]]''.
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''Yoriki'' were [[samurai]] officials in the service of a magistrate (''[[bugyo|bugyô]]'') and ranking above the ''[[doshin|dôshin]]''. About fifty ''yoriki'' were active in [[Edo]], and answered to the Edo City Magistrates (''Edo [[machi bugyo|machi bugyô]]'').<ref>Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 51.</ref>
    
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