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- noun members of various government branch offices during the
Edo period
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Examples
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Samurai Sano Ichiro is a yoriki, recenty appointed to the Edo police as fulfilment of a debt to his father.
The Monday Morning "It's Sunny Out, And I'm In The Office" Review - Shinju marypcb 2002
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Thus the spy led him to his officer, a _yoriki_ established at
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As he approached the utter prostration of a dissolution the _yoriki_ gave sign.
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Darkness offered chance of escape; so with dawn a host of _yakunin_ was sent under a _yoriki_ [28] and several _do [u] shin_.
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Toward the hour of the sheep (1 P.M.) a _yoriki_ with his _do [u] shin_ appeared.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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There were two of these officials in Kyoto and, like their namesakes in Yedo, they had a force of constables (yoriki) and policemen (doshin) under their command.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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His law-court was in his own residence, and under his direction constables (yoriki or doshiri) patrolled the city.
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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_do [u] shin_ took him to the _yoriki_ seated beneath a tea shed.
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"Benkei" Vol.II. p. 195.] [Footnote 28: The _yoriki_ is hard to place -- "commanding officer."
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