御お忍しのび駕籠かご

noun

incognito palanquin for a daimyo or his wife

Historical term for a palanquin used when a daimyo or his wife traveled discreetly, without the usual retinue and formal trappings.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、大だい名みょうがお忍しのびで出でかけるときは御お忍しのび駕籠かごを使つかった。

  In the Edo period, when a daimyo went out incognito, he used an incognito palanquin.

• 御お忍しのび駕籠かごは、身み分ぶんを隠かくすために簡かん素そな造つくりだった。

  The incognito palanquin was simply constructed to conceal the occupant's status.