Meaning
張本人 (ちょうほんにん, chouhonnin) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “ringleader, culprit, mastermind”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 7
その男が事件の張本人だ
The man was the ringleader of the incident.
彼が今度の騒ぎの張本人だ.
He is the man who is behind this uproar.
このうわさの張本人はだれだ？
Who is at the bottom of these rumors?
自民党などからは「独裁・暗黒時代」「京都を極限まで遅らせた張本人」という批判がある。
There is criticism from the LDP and others calling him a "dictatorial dark age" and "the very person who delayed Kyoto to the utmost."
西光が師高の流罪を嘆き、強訴の張本人が明雲であるとして処罰を訴えたことが原因であったという。
It is said that this was caused by Saiko, who saddened by the exile of Morotaka, blamed Myoun as the leader of the demonstrations and demanded punishment.
このような中で延暦寺への恨みを抱く西光は後白河に、天台座主・明雲が強訴の張本人であり処罰することを訴えた。
In this situation, Saiko, who had a deep resentment towards Enryaku-ji Temple, demanded that Tendai Zasu (Chief Tendai Abbot) Myoun was the leader of the direct petition and asked Goshirakawa to punish him.
仁和寺にいた後白河院にすがり助命を嘆願するが、朝廷は信頼を謀反の張本人として許さず、六条河原で斬首された。
At Ninna-ji Temple, where Cloistered Emperor Goshirakawa had gone, he pleaded for clemency, but the Imperial Court did not pardon Nobuyori as ringleader of insurrection and he was beheaded at the Rokujo-gawara execution grounds.