==Intelligence gathering== The shogunate recognized the need for some kind of internal intelligence-gathering apparatus and for some degree of covert espionage within its own ranks. It could be said that the metsuke functioned as the Shogun`s intelligence agency or as internal spies, reporting to the officials in Edo on events and situations acro....
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Lesser officials who in the Edo Period appear to have handled under-cover police work and acted as spies for the Tokugawa government.
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http://www.samurai-archives.com/vocab.html
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