Yoriki
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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]
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.
