御家人

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にん
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Noun

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()()(にん) (gokenin

  1. (historical) a vassal, (particularly) a vassal of low rank within the feudal state of a lord
  2. (historical) a samurai directly loyal to the shogun
    • 2011, Kino Kō, Urareta nyōbō: Muyaku gokenin onmitsuchō:
      ()(りき)でも(どう)(しん)でもない()()(にん)(とう)(うま)と、(おか)()きの(せい)()(ろう)は、()(ねん)ほどまえに(たて)(かわ)()こう(がわ)(うら)(だな)()きた、(わか)(さし)(もの)()(ちち)(おや)(ころ)しの(うたが)いをきっかけに(した)しくなった。
      Yoriki de mo dōshin de mo nai gokenin no Tōuma to, Okappiki no Seigorō wa, go-nen hodo mae ni Tatekawa no mukō gawa no uradana de okita, wakai sashimonoshi no chichioya koroshi no utagai o kikkake ni shitashikunatta.
      Tōuma, a samurai with neither power nor connections, became acquainted with Seigorō of Okappiki five years earlier across the Tate River on the case of a young carpenter suspected of killing his father in a back alley.