宰 — superintend, manager, rule

太宰だざい 治おさむは、 自殺じさつした。

Osamu Dazai killed himself.

また、大宰府の官人など取り締まる側もこうした交易に参画するようになった。

The regulators such as the government officials at Dazaifu also participated in this kind of trading.

当時の文学青年から崇拝され、代表作「小僧の神様」にかけて「比喩としての「神様」「神」一覧」に擬せられていたが、太宰治から長篇小説『津軽』の中で批判を受けて立腹し、座談会の席上で太宰を激しく攻撃した。

He was worshipped by the literary youth of the time and was called a "god of novels" after his representative work, "The Shopboy's God"; however, he was offended by Osamu DAZAI's criticism of him in DAZAI's full-length novel "Tsugaru," and attacked him viciously at a round-table discussion.