immune to corruption, and sometimes the conduct of these officials could be affected by bribes. For example, the televised jidaigeki episodes of Abarenbō Shōgun are rife with petty corruption, including a broad range of officials across the span of television seasons. Metsuke also appear as persecutors of Japanese Christians in the film Silence (2016). In the video game Total War: Shogun 2, metsuke are agents tasked with imprisoning or executing operatives of enemy clans, particularly ninja, as well as with overseeing settlements to increase internal security and improve tax collection. List of metsuke Matsudaira Chikano (1841–1844) Ido Staohiro (1842–1845) Arao Narimasa (1852–1854) Nagai Naomune (1853–1858) Iwase Tadanari (1854–1858) Oguri Tadamasa (1859–1860) Ikeda Nagaaki (1862–1863, 1863) Kawada Hiroshi (1864) Kurimoto Sebei (1864–1865) Notes References Beasley, William G. (1955). Select Documents on Japanese Foreign Policy, 1853-1868. London: Oxford University Press. [reprinted by RoutledgeCurzon, London, 2001. (cloth)] Cullen, L.M. (2003). A History of Japan, 1582-1941: Internal and External Worlds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (cloth), (paper) Cunningham, Don. (2004). Taiho-jutsu: Law and Order in the Age of the Samurai. Tokyo: Tuttle Publishing. Sansom, George Bailey. (1963). "A History of Japan: 1615-1867." Stanford: Stanford University Press. See also Bugyō Officials of the Tokugawa shogunate Government of feudal Japan