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*''Other Names'': 御城坊主 ''(oshiro bouzu)''
*''Japanese'': 表坊主 ''(omote bouzu)''
The ''omote-bôzu'' was a post within [[Edo castle]]. Working under the supervision & authority of the ''[[domei gashira|dômei gashira]]'', the ''omote bôzu'' waited upon the various ''daimyô'' and officials who visited the castle. This included guiding visitors to the appropriate rooms, and providing additional spaces for them to change clothes, and to rest. The ''omote bôzu'', with a shorn head and dressed in the fashion of a Buddhist monk, also served food and [[tea]] to the guests, and helped them with their clothes and swords.
While the more than 200 ''omote bôzu'' operated in the "front" (''omote'') and comparatively public parts of the castle, another 100 or so individuals called ''oku bôzu'' performed similar work in the rear, "interior" (''oku''), private parts of the castle. Both the ''Honmaru'' palace (incl. the main shogunal administrative and residential areas) and the ''Nishi-no-maru'' palace (that of the shogunal heir) had ''omote'' and ''oku bôzu'' working there. Meanwhile, ''cha bôzu'', or "tea monks," oversaw the [[tea rooms]] and [[tea ceremony|tea ceremonies]] of the castle.
''Omote bôzu'' were often thanked or paid for their help by the ''daimyô'', who might invite the ''omote bôzu'' to his [[daimyo yashiki|''daimyô'' mansion]], for a banquet and/or to receive a gift of money or goods.
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==References==
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%A1%A8%E5%9D%8A%E4%B8%BB-454886#E4.B8.96.E7.95.8C.E5.A4.A7.E7.99.BE.E7.A7.91.E4.BA.8B.E5.85.B8.20.E7.AC.AC.EF.BC.92.E7.89.88 Omote bôzu]," ''Digital Daijisen'', Shogakukan.
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%A1%A8%E5%9D%8A%E4%B8%BB-454886#E4.B8.96.E7.95.8C.E5.A4.A7.E7.99.BE.E7.A7.91.E4.BA.8B.E5.85.B8.20.E7.AC.AC.EF.BC.92.E7.89.88 Chabôzu]," ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'', Hitachi Solutions, 2013.
*Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Sankin kôtai'', Kodansha gendai shinsho (1998), 184-186.
*Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Edo jidai - shôgun bushi tachi no jitsuzô'', Tokyo Shoseki (2008), 70.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Ranks and Titles]]
*''Japanese'': 表坊主 ''(omote bouzu)''
The ''omote-bôzu'' was a post within [[Edo castle]]. Working under the supervision & authority of the ''[[domei gashira|dômei gashira]]'', the ''omote bôzu'' waited upon the various ''daimyô'' and officials who visited the castle. This included guiding visitors to the appropriate rooms, and providing additional spaces for them to change clothes, and to rest. The ''omote bôzu'', with a shorn head and dressed in the fashion of a Buddhist monk, also served food and [[tea]] to the guests, and helped them with their clothes and swords.
While the more than 200 ''omote bôzu'' operated in the "front" (''omote'') and comparatively public parts of the castle, another 100 or so individuals called ''oku bôzu'' performed similar work in the rear, "interior" (''oku''), private parts of the castle. Both the ''Honmaru'' palace (incl. the main shogunal administrative and residential areas) and the ''Nishi-no-maru'' palace (that of the shogunal heir) had ''omote'' and ''oku bôzu'' working there. Meanwhile, ''cha bôzu'', or "tea monks," oversaw the [[tea rooms]] and [[tea ceremony|tea ceremonies]] of the castle.
''Omote bôzu'' were often thanked or paid for their help by the ''daimyô'', who might invite the ''omote bôzu'' to his [[daimyo yashiki|''daimyô'' mansion]], for a banquet and/or to receive a gift of money or goods.
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==References==
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%A1%A8%E5%9D%8A%E4%B8%BB-454886#E4.B8.96.E7.95.8C.E5.A4.A7.E7.99.BE.E7.A7.91.E4.BA.8B.E5.85.B8.20.E7.AC.AC.EF.BC.92.E7.89.88 Omote bôzu]," ''Digital Daijisen'', Shogakukan.
*"[https://kotobank.jp/word/%E8%A1%A8%E5%9D%8A%E4%B8%BB-454886#E4.B8.96.E7.95.8C.E5.A4.A7.E7.99.BE.E7.A7.91.E4.BA.8B.E5.85.B8.20.E7.AC.AC.EF.BC.92.E7.89.88 Chabôzu]," ''Sekai daihyakka jiten'', Hitachi Solutions, 2013.
*Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Sankin kôtai'', Kodansha gendai shinsho (1998), 184-186.
*Yamamoto Hirofumi, ''Edo jidai - shôgun bushi tachi no jitsuzô'', Tokyo Shoseki (2008), 70.
[[Category:Edo Period]]
[[Category:Ranks and Titles]]
