With the beginning of the Edo bakufu (Edo shogunate), the posts of buke tenso (liaison officers who communicate requests from the military government to the imperial court) were established just as in the Muromachi Period.
江戸幕府が開幕すると、武家（幕府）からの奏請を朝廷へ取り次ぐ折衝役として室町時代と同様、武家伝奏の職が設けられた。