宰

Meaning

宰 centers on authoritative control: superintending, managing, or ruling over affairs or people.

• 主宰しゅさい

  chairmanship; presidency; management

• 宰相さいしょう

  prime minister; premier; chancellor

• 大宰府だざいふ

  dazaifu (under the ritsuryō system, governmental office with jurisdiction over Kyushu, Iki and Tsushima)

• 主宰者しゅさいしゃ

  president; chairman

• 伴食宰相ばんしょくさいしょう

  incompetent cabinet minister; figurehead minister

• 冢宰ちょうさい

  Minister of State (Zhou dynasty China)

• 厨宰ちゅうさい

  chef; head cook

• 大宰おおみこともち

  government official working for the daizaifu

• 大宰帥おおみこともちのかみ

  director of the dazaifu (ritsuryō system)

• 宰領さいりょう

  supervision; superintendence; management; supervisor

• 総括主宰者そうかつしゅさいしゃ

  (electoral) campaign manager

• 黒衣の宰相こくいのさいしょう

  Buddhist priest who is also an important politician

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