Rokuhara Tandai (六波羅探題) was the post of the chiefs of the
Kamakura shogunate in
Kyoto whose agency, the Rokuhara (六波羅), kept responsibility for security in
Kinai and judicial affairs on western
Japan, and negotiated with the
imperial court. Despite keeping security, the Rokuhara were also a sort of
secret police and widely feared.[1]
Rokuhara Tandai was set up after the
Jōkyū Incident in 1221. The two chiefs were called Kitakata (北方) and Minamikata (南方). Kitakata was higher-ranking than Minamikata. Like shikken and rensho, both posts were monopolized by the
Hōjō clan. The agency was destroyed with the
fall of Kamakura shogunate in 1333.