所しょ務む

noun

job; role; duty; service

Archaic term for one's official duties or role, especially in a feudal or administrative context. Not used in modern Japanese.

• 古こ文ぶん書しょには、役やく人にんの所しょ務むとして年ねん貢ぐの取とり立たてが記しるされている。

  In old documents, the collection of land tax is recorded as an official's duty.

noun

collecting land tax; earnings from land tax

Specific historical sense: the task of collecting land tax in feudal Japan, or the income derived from it. Highly specialized and archaic.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの村むら役やく人にんは、所しょ務むとして年ねん貢ぐを集あつめる責せき任にんがあった。

  During the Edo period, village officials were responsible for collecting land tax as part of their duties.