Onkakitsuke - Letter of Inscription

…Any written document with a few characters was generally called a koshitsuke, but in the Edo period, the term 'Goshotsuke' was used for official documents in the shogunate or daimyo households that contained instructions and announcements from above, or inquiries and opinions from below. In particular, when the Edo shogunate issued orders to daimyo, it was initially done using rōjū hosho, but around the Genroku period, this was replaced by rōjū ōshotsuke, which had a simpler format. …

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "Goshotsuki" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…文字などを少し書き記したものを広く書付と称したが，江戸時代には幕府や大名家で上からの下達･申渡しや下からの伺い･意見を記した公式文書に〈御書付〉の呼称が用いられた。とくに江戸幕府が大名らに指令を下す場合，初期には老中奉書をもってなされたが，元禄時代ごろになると，より簡便な様式を有する老中御書付がこれに代わっていった。…

※「御書付」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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