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

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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