Men-sheng; mên-shêng

Japanese: 門生 - もんせい（英語表記）men-sheng; mên-shêng

A scholar or a disciple of a powerful family in the Han and Six Dynasties period in China. Those who studied the Taigaku or Kokugaku schools were called Shosei, while those who studied under a scholar were called Monsho or Menin, and were registered in a list of their teachers. A special personal relationship developed between scholars and their disciples, and scholars would give advantageous recommendations to their disciples when they sought official positions, and disciples were sometimes punished for their work. In opposition to scholars and bureaucrats who built up influence by having many disciples, even powerful families and eunuchs began to have many disciples, and this became a measure of their power.

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Japanese:

中国，漢・六朝時代の学者，権勢家の門人。太学や国学に学ぶ者を諸生と呼んだのに対して，学者に学ぶ者を門生，門人などと呼び，師の名簿に登録された。学者と門生との間には特殊な私的関係が生れ，学者は門生が官途につく場合に有利な推挙をし，門生は学者のために刑を受けることもあった。学者，官僚が多数の門生をかかえて勢力を形成するのに対抗して，権門勢家や宦官までも，多くの門生をかかえるようになり，それが勢威を示す尺度ともなった。

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