Imusaqa

Overview

Imusaqa was a member of the Namudulu clan of the Bordered Red Banner, residing in the Namudulu area for generations. The Qing Dynasty official clan genealogy, *The Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, Volume 21, records that he served as a sixth-rank official; his son, Changguo, also served as a sixth-rank official; Gachine served as a scribe; his grandson, Entehe, served as an infantry officer; Fulu served as a scribe; and his fourth-generation descendant, Yichanga, served as a cavalry officer during the compilation. The year of this group's submission is unknown. The sixth-rank official designation only indicates the official's grade, not their specific position, and cannot be used to determine the ranks or senior/junior ranks of the Six Ministries. The scribe title is a Manchu-derived official title, commonly transliterated as *bithesi*, whose duties included copying, translating, and handling Manchu-Chinese documents; their specific rank depended on the department they belonged to. The infantry officer was found within the infantry management system, undertaking corresponding guard and patrol duties; the cavalry officer belonged to the cavalry battalion, and the two should be distinguished by their original names. This document preserves the rank, documents, and banner officer positions of Imsaka himself and his descendants, but it does not specify whether Changguo's sixth-rank official position was inherited from his father, and it is not possible to write the same rank as the inheritance of the same position.