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*''Japanese'': 側用人 ''(soba younin)''
''Soba yônin'', sometimes translated as Chamberlain, was a high-ranking position in the [[Tokugawa shogunate]]; chamberlains acted as intermediaries between the [[shogun]] and the ''[[roju|rôjû]]''.
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==References==
*Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), ''Told Round a Brushwood Fire'', University of Tokyo Press (1979), 323.
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