The Mint is not now at Miako, but at Yedo, where the Shiogoon’s officers keep it in their own hands.
Shuri goo jo shi, superintendent of Sintoo temples or mias. Head officer is always a Ben gwang.
Dzo ji shi, superintendents of Buddhist temples.
Bo wo ngashi, military man, superintends the banks of the Kamongawa, a river at Miako. Is at the same time Ta yee no ske.
Se yaku in, doctors for the poor in Miako.
Ke bi ishi, Police and Executive. The Kangay yu no cho, the Gio bu shio, and the Kebi ishi, are now merged in one department, to which all the Kokushiu Daimios, the Dai jo gwang, Giobushio, the Ometski, and city governors belong, and is very important.
The head officer is Kebi ishi no bettowo, a military man of higher rank than the Sanghi. There is a saying that a Kebi ishi no bettowo should have seven virtues. These seven virtues, the book remarks, it is very difficult to find in one man. K. no bettowo is one of the men with most power over the natives in the empire.
K. no ske, two men. They are commonly known as Ta yee no ske, and every one in Miako can recognize them at once by their dress.
Then follow the titles of men as heads of some of the large families or clans of Japan.
Fusi wara ooji no choja (chang shang), the head of the clan Fusiwara. By men of this clan all high civil offices are filled. The offices of Sessio and Kwanbakku are filled by members of this family. When the country is torn by civil war, then he who gets the power may take the title, as in the case of Taiko sma and his son.