Tairo

Tairō (大老, lit. "great elder") was an official in the bakuhan taisei government of Japan, who would preside over the governing roju in the event of an emergency. The tairo was nominated from among a group of samurai families who had supported Tokugawa Ieyasu. Generally, the position was used to provide Japan with a capable temporary leader in the absence of a shogun, or if the shogun was incapacitated.

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Roju: The R?j? (老中), usually translated as Elder, was one of the highest-ranking government posts in Tokugawa Japan. The term refers either to individual Elders, or to the Council as a whole; under the first two shoguns, there were only two R?j?. The number was then increased to five, and la...