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左遷 (させん, sasen) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “demotion; relegation”.
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Example sentences 9
彼は 問題を 起して 左遷された
He was demoted after causing some problems.
衛門府になったときにわかに左遷される。
However, he was demoted shortly after he was appointed Emonfu (Headquarters of the Outer Palace Guards).
広嗣はこれを左遷と感じ、強い不満を抱いた。
Hirotsugu felt this demotion transfer and was greatly displeased.
夫の左遷後、京都に留まったものとされている。
After Michizane was demoted, Nobukiko is said to have remained in Kyoto.
左遷された事もあり編纂者から名は外されている。
His name as an editor was removed from this work because he was demoted.
彼は 部長の 娘さんを 妊娠させて、 左遷されました。
He got the section chief's daughter pregnant and was demoted.
継母の暗殺から大和国雲雀山に逃れて、當麻寺（たいまでら）に入り尼となり（一説には父の左遷を悲しんだためとされる）勤行に励んで、徳によって仏の助力を得て、一夜で蓮糸で当麻曼荼羅（観無量寿経の曼荼羅）を織ったとされている。
She escaped from her stepmother who had tried to kill her, to Mt. Hibari of Yamato Province, where she became a nun at Taima-dera Temple (another legend says that it was because she mourned over her father's degradation), and she made devotional exercises at the temple and gained assistance from Buddha due to her virtues, and she could make Taima mandala (mandala based on Kanmuryoju-kyo [The Amitayur dhuyana Sutra]) weaving with lotus thread in one night.
彼が仙台支店長に左遷させられた時には, みんなびっくりした. Everyone was surprised when he was relegated to manager of the Sendai Branch.この失態のため、京都から陸奥国（東北地方）へ左遷させられた。
For his blunder, he was relegated from Kyoto to Mutsu Province (Tohoku region).
社長は彼を支店へ左遷した. The boss shunted him to a branch office.彼の転任は事実上の左遷だ. His new appointment is, in reality, a change for the worse [is a virtual demotion].左大臣まで昇進するが安和の変で左遷される。
Later he became the Sadaijin, he was demoted because of the Anna Incident.