Parents and children - Yorioya Yoriko

Japanese: 寄親･寄子 - よりおやよりこ

A protector-protected relationship that is like a parent-child relationship. In the vassals of the Sengoku daimyo, Yorioya was also called Shinan or Sosha, and Yoriko was also called Yoriki (Yoriki) or Doshin. The Japanese translation, the Japanese-Portuguese Dictionary, defines Yorioya as "a person on whom someone relies and depends in the household of a certain lord or elsewhere," and Yoriko as "a person who relies on another and is under his protection, or a person under the control of another," and although the relationship differed depending on the era, it is essentially a protector-protected relationship based on a private contract between the two.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

親子関係に擬して結ばれた保護者･被保護者の関係。戦国大名の家臣団組織の中で，寄親は指南，奏者などとも呼ばれ，寄子は与力(寄騎)，同心とも呼ばれた。邦訳《日葡辞書》では，寄親を〈ある主君の家中とか，その他の所とかにおいて，ある者が頼り，よりすがる相手の人〉，寄子を〈他人を頼り，その庇護のもとにある者。あるいは，他の配下にある者〉と規定しており，その関係は時代によって異なるが，両者の私的契約に基づく保護･被保護関係を本質とする。

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