秩ちつ禄ろく

noun

official salary; hereditary stipend

Historical term referring to the stipend or salary granted to samurai and officials under the feudal system, especially during the Edo period and early Meiji era.

• 明めい治じ政せい府ふは秩ちつ禄ろく処しょ分ぶんによって武ぶ士しの俸ほう禄ろくを廃はい止しした。

  The Meiji government abolished samurai stipends through the Chitsuroku Shobun (abolition of hereditary stipends).