Osobashu

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  • Japanese: 御側衆 (o soba shuu)

Osobashû were personal attendants to the shogun or his heir. They served in a rotation.

References

  • Arai Hakuseki, Joyce Ackroyd (trans.), Told Round a Brushwood Fire, University of Tokyo Press (1979), 322.