were officials of the Tokugawa shogunate with responsibility for holding and defending Sunpu Castle (Sunpu-jō), also called Shizuoka Castle.Brinkley, Frank et al.. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era, p. 637.

Appointments to the prominent office of castle warden at Sunpu Domain were exclusively fudai daimyōs.Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868, p. 341. Conventional interpretations have construed these Japanese titles as "commissioner" or "overseer" or "governor".

List of Sunpu jōdai

Toki Tomoaki, 1859–1863.Beasley, Select Documents, pp. 340–341.

See also Bugyō

Notes

References Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853–1868. London: Oxford University Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)] Brinkley, Frank et al.. (1915). A History of the Japanese People from the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era. New York: Encyclopædia Britannica.