2002 年 38 巻 2 号 p. 103-133
The Meiji Government took the reins of the government from the Edo Shogunate by Meiji Restration. Despite of this change, the greater part of administrative organizations of Edo Shogunage were taken over by the Meiji Government. There were some administrative fields which took over organizations of the Edo Shogunate, for example, finance, foreign affairs, home affairs, and so on. In this paper, I study the administrative continuation between Hakodate Bugyosho and Kaitakushi from 1868 ot 1876. Hakodate Bugyosho is one of the local agencies of the Edo Shogunate. Kaitakushi is the government office established in 1869 for the purpose of development of Hokkaido. These administrative organs were established at Hokkaido, and their duties had some points of similarity. Their similar duties were home administration of Hokkaido includes development, defense of Hokkaido and negotiations with consuls of Hakodate. Because of this, officials of Hakodate Bugyosho were employed at Kaitakushi continuously. But they were dismissed gradually after 1872. The reasons of this are the improvement of original administrative organization of Kaitakushi itself and the change of development policy by Kiyotaka Kuroda, vice-minister of Kaitakushi.