Minbu-sho

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  • Japanese: 民部省 (minbu shou)

The Minbu-shô, sometimes translated as Ministry of Home Affairs or Ministry of Popular Affairs, was an office under the ritsuryô system which oversaw censuses, taxes, agriculture, communications, and the like.

References

  • Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 321.