in which governmental functions were parsed: Left Ministry of the Center. Ministry of Civil Services; also known as the "Ministry of Legislative Direction and Public Instruction". Ministry of Ceremonies; also known as the "Ministry of the Interior". Ministry of Taxation. Right Ministry of the Military. Ministry of Justice. Ministry of the Treasury. Ministry of the Imperial Household. The specific ministries above are not grouped arbitrarily. The two court officials below had responsibility for them as follows: This administrator was charged or tasked with supervising four ministries: Center, Civil Services, Ceremonies, and Taxation. This administrator was charged or tasked with supervising four ministries: Military, Justice, Treasury and Imperial Household. See also Daijō-kan Sesshō and Kampaku Kōkyū Kuge Imperial Household Agency Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari Tsutsumi Chūnagon Monogatari Torikaebaya Monogatari Notes References Dickson, Walter G. and Mayo Williamson Hazeltine. (1898). "The Eight Boards of Government" in Japan. New York: P. F. Collier. OCLC 285881 Kodansha. (1983). "Ukita Hideie", in Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan. Tokyo: Kodansha. OCLC 233144013 Nussbaum, Louis Frédéric and Käthe Roth. (2005). "Chunagon" in Japan Encyclopedia. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ; OCLC 48943301 Ozaki, Yukio. (2001). The Autobiography of Ozaki Yukio: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in Japan, translated by Fujiko Hara. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ; OCLC 123043741 Titsingh, Isaac. (1834). Nihon Ōdai Ichiran; ou, Annales des empereurs du Japon. Paris: Royal Asiatic Society, Oriental Translation Fund of Great Britain and Ireland. OCLC 5850691 Varley, H. Paul. (1980). Jinnō Shōtōki: A Chronicle of Gods and Sovereigns. New York: Columbia University Press. ; OCLC 59145842 Further reading Dickenson, Walter G. (1869). Japan: Being a Sketch of the History, Government and Officers of the Empire. London: W. Blackwood and Sons. Government of feudal Japan 702 establishments 8th-century establishments in Japan