agency that dispatches lodged servants
Archaic term for an agency that arranged lodging and dispatch of servants, mainly from the Edo period. Not used in modern Japanese.
In the Edo period, ukeyado acted as agencies that placed servants coming from the provinces.
Variant spelling with okurigana; also archaic.
Irregular kanji usage for the same word; not standard.
Compound of 請け (uke, 'receiving, undertaking') + 宿 (yado, 'lodging'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain, but it refers to an establishment that took in and dispatched servants.