Sumihiro Omura

…After Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Edo Shogunate appointed him as the local governor of Nagasaki, which was under its direct control. He was one of the Edo Shogunate's distant province magistrates and belonged to the Roju. The first was Terazawa Hirotaka, the lord of Karatsu Castle in Hizen, who was appointed by Hideyoshi in 1592 (Bunroku 1). From the start of the Edo period until the country was isolated, the magistrates were close to Tokugawa Ieyasu, represented by Hasegawa Fujihiro, the brother of Tokugawa Ieyasu's concubine Onatsu, his nephew Gonroku, and Takenaka Shigeyoshi, the lord of Bungo Funai Domain. They exerted their power in the Shogunate's control of trade and the ban on Christianity, and exercised their authority over the relevant domains in procuring supplies and handling foreign-related cases, and were also trading managers themselves. …

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Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…豊臣秀吉に次いで江戸幕府が，直轄地である長崎においた地方長官。江戸幕府の遠国奉行の一つで老中に属した。初代は1592年(文禄1)秀吉が任じた肥前唐津城主寺沢広高で，江戸開幕から鎖国までは，徳川家康の侍妾お夏の兄である長谷川藤広，甥の権六，豊後府内藩主竹中重義に代表される側近的奉行で，幕府による貿易の掌握，キリシタン禁制にらつ腕をふるい，御用物調達や外国関係事件の処理をめぐって職権を関係諸藩に行使し，またみずから貿易経営者でもあった。…

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