the Tokugawa shogunate. A lady in the rank of an Otoshiyori (御年寄) or Jōrō Otoshiyori (上臈御年寄) or the senior ladyship held the reins of power in the Ōoku...

(Japanese: 御老中衆) and Kato Kiyomasa called them the Nihon-Gotoshiyorishu (Japanese: 日本御年寄衆). They both called the five commissioners Go-bugyoshu (Japanese: 御奉行衆)...

quarters, at Edo Castle; being appointed to the position of Jōrō Otoshiyori (上臈御年寄) or the senior ladyship, recommended by the first Midaidokoro, Oeyo, which...

of sex worker in historic Japanese red-light districts Jōrō Otoshiyori (上臈御年寄), a title used in the Shogunate, in the Ōoku Lady Kasuga (1579–1643), the...