朱しゅ印いん

noun

red seal; vermilion seal

A seal stamped in red ink, historically used on official documents, licenses, and by the Tokugawa shogunate for foreign trade permits (朱印状).

• この古こ文もん書じょには朱しゅ印いんが押おしてある。

  This old document bears a red seal.

• 朱しゅ印いん船せん貿ぼう易えきは江え戸ど時じ代だい初しょ期きに行おこなわれた。

  Red-seal ship trade was conducted in the early Edo period.