Kanjō-bugyō (勘定奉行) were officials of theTokugawa shogunate inEdo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were usuallyfudai daimyōs.^[1] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor".

The work was mainly done at theaccount office.

Thisbakufu title identifies an official with responsibility for finance. The office ofkanjō-bugyō was created in 1787 to upgrade the status and authority of the pre-1787 finance chief (kanjō-gashira).^[2]

It was a high-ranking office, in status roughly equivalent to agaikoku-bugyō; the status of this office ranked slightly below that ofdaimyō, ranking a little below themachi-bugyō. The number ofkanjō bugyō varied, usually five or six in the late Tokugawa period.^[1]

Thekanjō-bugyō was considered to rank approximately with thegunkan-bugyō.^[3] Thekanjō-ginmiyaku werebakufu officials of lower rank who were subordinate to thekanjō-bugyō.^[1]

There are also accounts in variousDomains, and like the accounts of the shogunate, they were in charge of duties such as finance and tax collection of the domains. The chief executive officer of theAccounts Office is the Kanjo Bugyo, and because of the domain's financial responsibilities, a superior with a relatively upper class samurai was appointed within the clan . In addition, there was an official of the accountant under the Kanjō bugyō, who was in charge of the duties.

• Umezo Masagake^[4]
• Matsudaira Chikanao (1844–57).^[5]
• Kawaji Toshiaki (1852–58)^[6]—negotiated theShimoda Treaty.
• Mizuno Tadanori (1855–58, 1859).^[7]
• Toki Tomoaki (1857–59).^[8]
• Nagai Naomune (1858).^[9]
• Takenuchi Tasunori (1861–64).^[10]
• Oguri Tadamasa (1863, 1864–65).^[9]
• Matsuaira Yasunao (1863–64).^[11]
• Inoue Kiyonao (1864–66).^[12]
• Kawazu Sukekuni (1867).^[6]
• Kurimoto Sebei (1867).^[5]
• Kan'o Haruhide.^[13] Simultaneously Nikkōbugyō until 1746.
• Honda Yashuhide.^[14]
• Hagiwara Shigehide.^[15]

• Bugyō
• Head of Accounts(勘定組頭) - Who directed and supervised the officials belonging to the Accounts Office.and was in charge of the Shogunate or Domains finances and agricultural policy.
• Kanjō-bugyō - Kanjobugyo is a financial accounting computer software released by Obic Business Consultants.

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