Red seal - Shuin

Japanese: 朱印 - しゅいん

〘 noun 〙① A vermilion seal. Also, the act of stamping it. [Nippo Jisho (1603-04)] * Haikai, Kebukuso (1638), 6: "Momijiba wa aki wo tagaenu shuin (shuin) ya (Koei)" * Haru no Shiro (1952), 〈Agawa Hiroyuki〉 2: "Enclose a private letter with an official vermilion seal." ② A vermilion seal stamped on official documents. It has been used since the Nara period, but since the Heian period, many documents have used a kao instead of a seal to indicate the sender and the person in charge. However, by the end of the Muromachi period, the number of documents issued by warring lords with seals (vermilion seals, black seals, etc.) rapidly increased, and Nobunaga, Hideyoshi, and the generals of the Tokugawa shogunate also used it frequently. Usually, when "vermilion seals" are used historically, they refer to those from the Warring States period onwards. Also, black seals tend to be lighter in content than vermilion seals. ※Nobunaga-kōki (1598), 3: “Furthermore, I was ordered by Inaba Iyo-no-kami to prepare a red seal and send it out.” ③ Abbreviation of “Shuinjō (red seal letter).” ※Tamon-in Diary - May 8, 1577 (Tenshō 5) “In Araya-go, Enmyo-in and Renjō-in went to Azuchi, Goshū on the 3rd of last month, but as it turned out that _we were in the _right position, we returned _home today. _No red seal was issued.”

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Japanese:

〘名〙① 朱色の印判。また、それを押すこと。〔日葡辞書（1603‐04）〕※俳諧・毛吹草（1638）六「紅葉葉は秋をたがへぬ朱印(シュヰン)哉〈弘永〉」※春の城（1952）〈阿川弘之〉二「公用の朱印を押した私信を封入して」② 公文書に押す朱色の印判。奈良時代以来用いられてきたが平安時代以降は印でなく花押によって差出所・責任者を明示する文書が多くなった。しかし室町時代末期に至って戦国大名の発給する文書に印判（朱印、黒印など）を押したものが急速に増加し、信長、秀吉、また徳川幕府の将軍もこれを多用した。ふつう、歴史的に「朱印」という場合は戦国時代以降のものをさすことが多い。また、黒印は朱印に比べてその文書の内容が軽い傾向がある。※信長公記（1598）三「其上稲葉伊予守に仰付けられ、御朱印調させ遣はされ」③ 「しゅいんじょう（朱印状）」の略。※多聞院日記‐天正五年（1577）五月八日「新屋郷付、去三日に円明院・蓮成院江州安土へ越候処、如_二当方本意_一相調、今日被_レ帰了。朱印は不_レ出」

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