In the Constitution of 1868, however, the new government, which had mostly seized control of the regions to the west of Kanto, stipulated a new government-regulated organization to replace the Dajokan Sanshoku-taisei (an administrative body composed of a Sosai [President], Gijo [directors] and Sanyo [administrators] that had been acting as the provisional government).
しかし、関東地方以西をほぼ掌握した新政府が、それまでの臨時政府的な太政官三職体制に代えて新たな官制を定めたものである。