奉ぶ行ぎょう

noun

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.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、町まち奉ぶ行ぎょうは江え戸どの行ぎょう政せいと司し法ほうを担たん当とうした。

  In the Edo period, the town magistrate was responsible for the administration and judiciary of Edo.

• 勘かん定じょう奉ぶ行ぎょうは幕ばく府ふの財ざい政せいを管かん理りする重じゅう要ような役やく職しょくだった。

  The finance magistrate was an important post that managed the shogunate's finances.