Police forces in Edo during the Tokugawa era

[ishimura]

Greetings! It's nice to meet you all. This site is amazing and has given me already a lot of information that'll help me on my personal project about an AU in the time/place mentioned in the header.

What I still need is specific information on how the police worked in Edo during the Tokugawa era. Most books I found about this time in Edo only

Comments

[randomstasis]

have you tried to find the references listed in the Wiki articles? Some could be pretty useful, such as Cunningham- http://books.google.com/books?id=g5BP7DGuNFsC&pg=PA42&dq=yoriki&hl=en&ei=I7pvTvPBEqmHsgLarNTgCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=yoriki&f=true.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edo_period_police
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto_Shoshidai

[ishimura]

Thank you and yes, I bought some of these books. o: Unfortunately, Cunningham doesn't focus in depth about the different police ranks and even less about their daily life. And I can't find the rest of the books on sites like my local amazon where I could buy them.

Which (other) books would you recommend for the theme I'm writing about? Do you know other sources for information about the police in Edo?

[randomstasis]

Sorry, but I really don't have much. It wouldn't surprise me to find that some roles-like okappiki and komono- changed over time, especially at the beginning, As for the life, you might go more general; books about the Floating World, for instance, do tend to dwell on the police and their role.
and you might look at this series; I'm not sure what her sources are, but she's obviously looked at the same problem.
http://www.amazon.com/Shinju-Laura-Joh-Rowland/dp/0061009504#reader_0061009504