magistrate; shogunate administrator
Historical term for a magistrate or administrator in the Edo-period shogunate, responsible for specific areas such as finance, temples, or town affairs.
In the Edo period, the town magistrate was responsible for the administration and judiciary of Edo.
The finance magistrate was an important post that managed the shogunate's finances.
He served as a town magistrate for many years.
He was appointed as the finance magistrate.
奉行 refers to a person holding an office, so it is counted with 人 like other people.
Edo-period town magistrate
the five commissioners; administrative organ of feudal Japan
magistrate's office
hotpot boss; person who takes charge of cooking a communal hot pot
chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance · chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)
From the kanji 奉 (offer, serve) and 行 (go, carry out), originally referring to an official who carried out orders on behalf of a superior. The reading ぶぎょう is the Sino-Japanese on'yomi.