とがおいびくに

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of とがおいびくに – see the following entry.
【科負比丘尼】
[noun] [from 1693] (historical) a Buddhist nun hired by a high-ranking noble household to accompany a noblewoman in public and take the blame for her farts and other public faults, in the late Muromachi period or Edo period
Alternative spelling
科負い比丘尼
(This term, とがおいびくに (togaoibikuni), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
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