Machi doshiyori
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The machi doshiyori were assistants to the machi bugyô (city magistrates) during the Edo period.
Neighborhood headmen (nanushi) of areas within Edo answered to the machi doshiyori, and oversaw the goningumi (five-person collective responsibility groups), and guardhouses and gatehouses within their respective neighborhoods.[1]
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 321.
- ↑ Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), Edo & Paris, Cornell University Press (1994), 46.
