Osue - Osue

Japanese: 御末 - おすえ

〘Noun〙① The name of a room in the Imperial Palace or the Muromachi Shogunate. It was used when various families and vassals met. Also, the low-ranking maids who served there. ※Umino Mokai (1420) "There is a place called Osue in the Imperial Palace. In normal people's places, it is around Nakai."② In the Edo period, among the ladies-in-waiting of the shogunate and daimyo, a room where low-ranking maids who served as water servants and did odd jobs were kept. Also, those maids. O-hashita. Hasitame. ※Kana-zoshi Miyako Fuzoku Kan (1681) 2 "In the spacious kitchen, the maids worked as O-sue chopsticks, or perhaps they were sent out to do chores."③ = O-sue-shu (Osue-shu) ※Inryoken Nikki - October 9, 1463 (Kansho 4) " _First of _{the Two} Lawsuits against Osue Kobayashi"④ A woman's word for a folding fan. (Collection of Courtiers' Words (1944))

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Japanese:

〘名〙① 内裏や室町将軍家の部屋の名称。諸家諸臣等の対面などに用いられた。また、そこに仕える身分の低い侍女。※海人藻芥（1420）「内裏に御すえといふ所あり。常の人の所ならば、中居などの辺なり」② 江戸時代、幕府、大名の奥女中のうち、水仕(みずし)、雑役に従事する下級の女中のいる部屋。また、その女中。おはした。はしため。※仮名草子・都風俗鑑（1681）二「広々たる台所、おすゑのはしをはたらき、或はとも、つかひにまかりたるてい」③ ＝おすえしゅう（御末衆）※蔭凉軒日録‐寛正四年（1463）一〇月九日「御末小林訴_二訟之_一云々」④ 扇子をいう女房詞。〔公家言葉集存（1944）〕

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