The Wakadoshiyori (若年寄), or "Junior Elders", were high government officials in the Edo period Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1867). The position...

of Edo Castle (Sakuradamon incident). Three to five men titled the wakadoshiyori (若年寄) were next in status below the rōjū. An outgrowth of the early...

Castle. The comparatively young wakadoshiyori, Tanuma Yamashiro-no-kami Okitomo [ja], was the son of the senior wakadoshiyori Tanuma Tonomo-no-kami Okitsugu...

military commander Katsu Kaishū and was promoted to the rank of wakadoshiyori (wakadoshiyori-kaku 若年寄格) in the rapidly disintegrating Tokugawa administration...

magistrates or tax collectors of direct Tokugawa house land, members of the wakadoshiyori council, and many other positions. The expression "eighty thousand hatamoto"...

Kita-machi-bugyō Shōgun Sobayōnin Gaikoku-bugyō Minami-machi-bugyō Wakadoshiyori Gunkan-bugyō Honjo machi-bugyō Daimyō Gusoku-bugyō Hakodate bugyō Haneda...

Kita-machi-bugyō Shōgun Sobayōnin Gaikoku-bugyō Minami-machi-bugyō Wakadoshiyori Gunkan-bugyō Honjo machi-bugyō Daimyō Gusoku-bugyō Hakodate bugyō Haneda...

Kita-machi-bugyō Shōgun Sobayōnin Gaikoku-bugyō Minami-machi-bugyō Wakadoshiyori Gunkan-bugyō Honjo machi-bugyō Daimyō Gusoku-bugyō Hakodate bugyō Haneda...

Tokugawa clan. Imagawa Norinobu, an Imagawa of the late Edo period, was a wakadoshiyori in the Tokugawa administration. Suruga Tōtōmi Tōtōmi (Horikoshi branch)...

Ieyasu after the fall of the Later Hōjō clan, becoming one of the first wakadoshiyori. His sister also became a concubine of Tokugawa Ieyasu. In 1635 he was...