was a position within the system for the administration of religion that existed from the Muromachi period to the Edo period in Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were always fudai daimyōs, the lowest-ranking of the shogunate offices to be so restricted.Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 323.
This shogunate title assigns an official the responsibility of suspervising shrines and temples.Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005). "Jisha-bugyō" in This was considered a high-ranking office, ranked only slightly below that of wakadoshiyori but above all other bugyō.
List of jisha-bugyō
Tsuda Masatoshi (?-1650) Ōoka Tadasuke (1736–1751)Manabu Ōishi, ed., Ōoka Tadasuke, Yoshikawa Kōbunkan, referred to in Nihon no Rekishi 11, Hiroyuki Inagaki, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Kuze Hirochika (1843–1848)Beasley, p. 335. Naitō Nobuchika (1844–1848)Beaseley, p. 338. Matsudaira Tadakata (1845) Matsudaira Nobuatsu (1848–1885)Beasley, p. 336. Andō Nobumasa (1852–1858)Beasley, p. 331. Itakura Katsukiyo (1857–1859, 1861–1862) Honjō Munehide (1858–1861)Beasley, p. 332. Mizuno Tadakiyo (1858–1861)Beasley, p. 337. Inoue Masanao (1861–1862)Beasley, p. 333. Makino Tadayuki (1862)Dunning, Eric et al. (2003). Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology, p. 189. Matsudaira Yasunao (1865)
See also Bugyō
Notes
References Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868. London: Oxford University Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)] Dunning, Eric and Dominic Malcolm. (2003). Sport: Critical Concepts in Sociology. London: Taylor & Francis. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). Japan encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 58053128