Minbu-sho
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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.
