Tosen bugyo
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The tôsen bugyô, or Chinese Ships Magistrate, was an official in service to the Shimazu clan who oversaw interactions with Chinese trading ships making port in Shimazu territory. The position was abolished after the Tokugawa shogunate's 1611 edict restricting Chinese ships to Nagasaki.
References
- Maria Grazia Petrucci, “Caught Between Piracy and Trade: The Shimazu of Southern Japan…”, in Robert Antony and Angela Schottenhammer (eds.), Beyond the Silk Roads, Harrassowitz Verlag (2017), p110.
