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殿様 (tonosama)

feudal lord

  • JLPT N1

Meaning

殿様 (とのさま, tonosama) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “feudal lord”.

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 6

舞妓まいこ、姫ひめ、殿様とのさま、武士ぶし、町人ちょうにん、町娘まちむすめ、等など、時代劇じだいげきの登場人物とうじょうじんぶつへの変身へんしん体験たいけんが出来できる変身へんしんスタジオもある(予約制よやくせい)。

There is a dress-up studio (reservations are needed) where visitors can experience wearing the costumes of characters appearing in samurai dramas, such as maiko (teenaged geisha apprentices in Kyoto), hime (a princess living in a castle), tonosama (samurai lord), samurai, merchant, and a teenaged girl of the merchant class.

殿様はこんどは、手のひらに何やら字を書きました。

第一の盗人 どうだい、この殿様に売ってしまうのは?

これをこう着た所は、殿様のように見えるだろう。

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