ぶぎょう
Meanings
Noun
Historical
1. magistrate; shogunate administrator
Pitch accent
ぎょう
Used in vocabulary (8 in total)
magistrate's office
(Edo-period) town magistrate
chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance; chief treasurer; chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)
governmental position of the shogunate, responsible for the management of temples and shrines
the five commissioners (administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
magistrate of Nagasaki (Edo period)
person who pushily takes charge when cooking a hot pot at the table; (lit.) hotpot boss
magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)