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Grade: 4
ばん
Grade: 2
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()(ばん) (kaban

  1. an official title in the Edo shogunate of assistant guards, who assisted Osaka guards and Sunpu guards in guarding a castle when there was a shortage of people

References edit

  1. ^ Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tōkyō: Sanseidō, →ISBN