Metsuke (目付) were the censors or the inspectors of Tokugawa shogunate. They were bakufu officials ranking somewhat lower than the bugyō. The metsuke were...

gokenin, the direct vassals of the shōgun. Under the wakadoshiyori were the metsuke. Some shōguns appointed a soba yōnin. This person acted as a liaison between...

The ōmetsuke were high-ranking officials in the shogunate; the metsuke and kachi-metsuke, lower-ranking police who could detain samurai. Yet another police...

sabotage, and assassination, geisha specialises in solely assassination, metsuke can oversee provinces, arrest or execute enemy agents, or even bribe enemy...

zōshiki, and others. Additionally, kaikō took on the duties of a clerk, metsuke worked as an inspector, and yoriudo took on the duties of an investigator...

Shogunate as intelligence operatives called onmitsu (undercover agents), and metsuke (inspectors), and in the 19th century, as diplomats. When the political...

Ōmetsuke Metsuke Rōjū Jisha-bugyō Tairō Rōjū-kaku Edo machi-bugyō Kita-machi-bugyō Shōgun Sobayōnin Gaikoku-bugyō Minami-machi-bugyō Wakadoshiyori Gunkan-bugyō...

Kurata [ja] and 弘田恕助. Starting with Inoue Saichiro, who was the shita metsuke (low class inspector of foot soldiers) of the Tosa Domain, Izō assassinated...

district of Koishikawa in Edo, the first son of Shibata Junzo Yoshimichi, a Metsuke samurai of the Tokugawa shogunate. His father died when he was 10, and...

shoulder drum. 7: flute. 8: chorus. 9: waki seat. 10: waki spot. 11: shite spot. 12: shite-bashira. 13: metsuke-bashira. 14: waki-bashira. 15: fue-bashira....