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*''Japanese'': 同心 ''(doushin)''

*''Japanese'': 同心 ''(doushin)''

''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>

''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]], and most held their positions in a hereditary manner.<ref>Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 51.</ref>

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