A Japanese Cunctatory Bureaucrat Or Dilatory Daimyo, Of Unique Design, Indolence And Seniority With Multiple Maternal Mitochondrial Deletions
Bureaucratic cunctation, while common to all nations and systems of government varied in style from country to country. While a daimyo or lord of old Japan was a person of consequence before dis-establishment of the bakafu administration, the habit remained after modernisation of right-angled fawning upon the titled and clueless. And its principal effect was to encourage cunctatory carriage of all major business by those of minor seniority: "Every bucho [was] a Basho buttock-buffing his way to the deep north of salaried indolence"(1).
A "Dilatory Daimyo" was the most lustrous of buttock-buffers able to delay a document's despatch until the final trump. Highly paid, highly esteemed and of low cunning he was a formidable fence against change and a candidate for defenestration. Pathophysiologically it is thought that such infra-dilatory, bureaucratic buttock-buffers are of maternal descent; with multiple, clerical mutations in mtDNA.
This unique, trivium-style Daimyo represents a mildly demented, cunctator of true charm, false modesty and monumental, administrative inability: "able at the same time to raise an institute, level a colleagial initiative and pinch a bottom while ambling down the corridor in his slippers" (2).
The naso-ventricular shunt was used to infuse self-regard after retirement.
(1) Lafcadio Hernia with an introduction and notes by Aristotle Spittle, "Old Japan", Tokyo: Tokyo University Press, reprinted 1967.
(2) Benito Bugia, "Cunctation and globalization: case histories", New York: Veritas and Turing, 1993.