kane-bugyō
Sign in to savethumb|Page from an Edo-period administrative record concerning the Osaka kane-bugyō and related posts. (also read kin-bugyō, often translated as “Treasury Magistrates” or “Superintendents of the Treasury”) were financial officials of the Tokugawa shogunate and of a number of daimyō domains in early modern Japan. They were responsible for the custody, accounting and disbursement of cash stored in official treasuries (okane-gura), and formed part of the broader fiscal administration overseen by the kanjō-bugyō (finance commissioners).
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thumb|Page from an Edo-period administrative record concerning the Osaka kane-bugyō and related posts. (also read kin-bugyō, often translated as “Treasury Magistrates” or “Superintendents of the Treasury”) were financial officials of the Tokugawa shogunate and of a number of daimyō domains in early modern Japan. They were responsible for the custody, accounting and disbursement of cash stored in official treasuries (okane-gura), and formed part of the broader fiscal administration overseen by the kanjō-bugyō (finance commissioners).
In the shogunate, the Kane-bugyō were classified as hatamoto officials under the jurisdiction of the kanjō-bugyō. Standard reference works describe the office as having four regular posts with stipends of around 200 koku (or the equivalent in rice allowances and salary), and note that similar positions existed in many domains, where they supervised domain treasuries and cash flows.