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...
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Tokugawa shogunate (section Ōmetsuke and metsuke)
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...
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The ōmetsuke were high-ranking officials in the shogunate; the metsuke and kachi-metsuke, lower-ranking police who could detain samurai. Yet another police...
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sabotage, and assassination, geisha specialises in solely assassination, metsuke can oversee provinces, arrest or execute enemy agents, or even bribe enemy...
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Shogunate as intelligence operatives called onmitsu (undercover agents), and metsuke (inspectors), and in the 19th century, as diplomats. When the political...
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Ōmetsuke Metsuke Rōjū Jisha-bugyō Tairō Rōjū-kaku Edo machi-bugyō Kita-machi-bugyō Shōgun Sobayōnin Gaikoku-bugyō Minami-machi-bugyō Wakadoshiyori Gunkan-bugyō...
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Ōmetsuke Metsuke Rōjū Jisha-bugyō Tairō Rōjū-kaku Edo machi-bugyō Kita-machi-bugyō Shōgun Sobayōnin Gaikoku-bugyō Minami-machi-bugyō Wakadoshiyori Gunkan-bugyō...
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front-left of stage; these are in order of decreasing desirability. While the metsuke-bashira pillar obstructs the view of the stage, the actors are primarily...
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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...
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Ōmetsuke Metsuke Rōjū Jisha-bugyō Tairō Rōjū-kaku Edo machi-bugyō Kita-machi-bugyō Shōgun Sobayōnin Gaikoku-bugyō Minami-machi-bugyō Wakadoshiyori Gunkan-bugyō...
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