小しょう官かん

noun

petty official; low-ranking official

Refers to a minor government or military official. Often used self-deprecatingly or in historical contexts.

• 彼かれは幕ばく府ふの小しょう官かんに過すぎなかった。

  He was merely a petty official of the shogunate.

pronoun

I; me

Humble first-person pronoun used by officials when speaking to superiors or in formal settings. Archaic in modern Japanese; replaced by 私 (わたくし) or 本官 in contemporary bureaucratic speech.

• 小しょう官かんが責せき任にんを持もって処しょ理りいたします。

  I will handle it with responsibility.