Sunpu jōdai

Sunpu jōdai (駿府城代) were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate with responsibility for holding and defending Sunpu Castle (Sunpu-jō), also called Shizuoka Castle.^[1]

Appointments to the prominent office of castle warden at Shizuoka were exclusively fudai daimyō.^[2] Conventional interpretations have construed this Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor."

List of Sunpu jōdai

• Toki Tomoaki, 1859-1863.^[3]

See also

• Bugyō

Notes

1. Brinkley, Frank et al.. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 637.
2. Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868, p. 341.
3. Beasley, Select Documents, pp. 340-341.

References

• Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868. London: Oxford University Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. ISBN 978-0-19-713508-2 (cloth)]
• Brinkley, Frank et al.. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica.