Kinzan-bugyō

Kinzan-bugyō (金山奉行) were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan.

This bakufu title identifies an official with responsibility for superintending all mines, mining and metals-extraction activities in Japan.[1]

List of kinzan-bugyō

  • Kakizaki Sakuzaemon[2]

See also

  • Bugyō
  • Kinza – Gold za (monopoly office or guild).
  • Ginza – Silver za (monopoly office or guild).
  • Dōza – Copper za (monopoly office or guild).

Notes

  1. ↑ Hall, John Wesley. (1955) Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan, p. 201
  2. ↑ Walker, Brett L. (2001). The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800, p. 57.

References

  • Hall, John Wesley. (1955). Tanuma Okitsugu: Forerunner of Modern Japan. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.
  • Walker, Brett L. (2001). The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590–1800. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-22736-0


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