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| − | *''Japanese'': 名主 ''(nanushi)''
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| − | ''Nanushi'' were village headmen, or heads of neighborhoods within cities such as [[Edo]].
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| − | Around the end of the 18th century, there were some 250-260 ''nanushi'' in Edo, overseeing roughly one thousand neighborhoods. This meant that many headmen were responsible for as many as seven, eight, or even ten neighborhoods each. The ''[[goningumi]]'' (five-person collective responsibility groups) and guardhouses in each neighborhood answered to the ''nanushi''.
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| − | ''Nanushi'' in Edo reported to the ''[[machidoshiyori]]'' ("town elders"), assistants to the ''[[machi bugyo|Edo machi bugyô]]'' (Edo City Magistrates).
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| − | ==References==
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| − | *Katô Takashi, "Governing Edo," in James McClain (ed.), ''Edo & Paris'', Cornell University Press (1994), 46, 55.
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| − | [[Category:Edo Period]]
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