Head of Account

The Head of the account(勘定組頭) is one of the positions of the Edo shogunate. Under the control of the account magistrate, he directed and supervised the officials belonging to the account office, and was in charge of the shogunate's finances and agricultural policy.

Overview

It is commonly believed that the installation time is Kanbun 4 (1664), but since this name has already appeared in the Kanei year more than 30 years before that, it is possible to go back to this period.

According to the office system of Kanbun 12 (1672), the capacity was 12 people and the official fee was 100 bales, and two people in charge of the Goten (Edo Castle) were set up, and the rest were allocated to the upper and Kanto people (at least 4 people). The official fee was abolished once in the 2nd year of Tenwa (1682), but in the 7th year of Kyoho(1722), the official height of 350 bales was given again, and the system reform in the following 8 years (1723) abolished the regional allotment, and instead the departmental allocation of Gotenzume, Katsutekata, Torikkai, Visitation, and Morokou account book reform was introduced. After that, the capacity remained at 10-13 until the end of the Tokugawa shogunate.

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