Sakuji-bugyō (作事奉行) were officials of theTokugawa shogunate having responsibility for architecture and construction matters.

Appointments to this prominent office were usuallyfudai daimyōs.^[1] Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer".

The office was created on the 3rd day of the 10th month of the ninth year ofKan'ei (1632). Threesakuji-bugyō were appointed at the same time in an effort to tighten administrative controls over what had previously been anad hoc army of builders in a diverse array of trades, and in a sense, the appointments could be seen as a response to a number of things which had not gone well in other, earlier construction projects.^[2]

The three loyal Tokugawa retainers were to become responsible for a number of shogunate building projects in the 1630s. Thesakuji-bugyō was considered to rank approximately with thekanjō-bugyō andmachi-bugyō.^[3]

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• Sakuma Sanekatsu^[2]
• Kano Motokatsu^[3]
• Sakai Tadatomo^[3]
• Kurihara Murikazu^[4]

• Bugyō

• Beasley, William G. (1955).Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868. London:Oxford University Press. [reprinted byRoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001.ISBN 978-0-19-713508-2 (cloth)]
• Coaldrake, William H. (1996)Architecture and Authority in Japan. London:Routledge.ISBN 978-0-415-10601-6 (paper)

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