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An officer (originally the chamberlain or mayor) of a palace, esp. an imperial palace; a chief minister of an empire. Now historical.
In early imperial Japan: the leader of all the group chiefs (see muraji, n.), ranked with the leader of the clan chiefs (see o-omi, n.) as the…