殿様 (tonosama)

feudal lord

  • JLPT N1
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Meaning

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

Kanji in this word

Example sentences 1

彼は内気な人間からいっぱしの政治家に変身した. He changed from a shy person into quite a politician.舞妓、姫、殿様、武士、町人、町娘、等、時代劇の登場人物への変身体験が出来る変身スタジオもある(予約制)。

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.