This bakufu title identifies a magistrate or municipal administrator with responsibility for governing and maintaining order in what were perceived to be important cities. The machi-bugyō were the central public authority in the Japanese urban centers of this period. These bakufu-appointed officers served in a unique role, which was an amalgam of...
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Edo Period town or city magistrates that handled many civil tasks for their daimyo, especially when he was away serving in Edo. Edo itself counted two machi-bugyo.
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