Jisha-bugyō (寺社奉行) was a "commissioner" or an "overseer" of the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo period Japan. Appointments to this prominent office were always...

Jisha-bugyō (寺社奉行) – Ministers or administrators for religious affairs; overseers of the country's temples and shrines. Jiwari-bugyō (地割奉行)- Commissioners...

investigation called magistrate of religion (宗門奉行, shūmon bugyō) or magistrate of temples and shrines (寺社奉行, jisha bugyō), from the following year registries...

inherit the kitо̄ bugyо̄ position during the Muromachi period. The jisha-densō (寺社伝奏) position had been established within the imperial court and was responsible...