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- Japanese: 同心 (doushin)
Dôshin were minor officials who served under bugyô (magistrates). They ranked below the yoriki. There were typically around two hundred doshin active in Edo.[1]
References
- Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 319.
- ↑ Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), Edo & Paris, Cornell University Press (1994), 51.
