ぎょう
Meanings
Noun
Historical
1. magistrate; shogunate administrator
Kanji used
dedicate
go
Pitch accent
ぎょう
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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
magistrate of Nagasaki (Edo period)
person who pushily takes charge when cooking a hot pot at the table; (lit.) hotpot boss
the five commissioners (administrative organ of feudal Japan established by Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
magistrate in charge of finding out and converting hidden Christians (during the Edo period)