とがおひびくに

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of とがおひびくに – see the following entry.
【科負比丘尼とがおいびくに】
[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, とがおひびくに (togaofibikuni), is a historical kana spelling of the above term.)
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