The number of such officers was believed to be 28 (or 25, according to some sources) in the Genna era and was gradually increased to around 50 in the Bunka era, shooting up to 112 in the last years of the Edo Period. |
定員は元和期には28名を定員とした(25名説もある)が、次第に増員されて文化 (日本)年間には50名前後、幕末に入ると一気に急増して最大で112名に達した。 |