科負い比丘尼

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of 科負い比丘尼 – 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
(This term, 科負い比丘尼, is an alternative spelling of the above term.)
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