遥よう任にん

noun

absentee appointment to a distant post

Archaic term referring to the practice in the Nara and Heian periods of appointing an official to a distant administrative post without requiring their physical presence.

• 遥よう任にんは、奈な良ら・平へい安あん時じ代だいに地ち方ほう官かんが任にん地ちへ赴おもむかずに職しょく務むを行おこなう制せい度どだった。

  Yōnin was a system in the Nara and Heian periods where provincial officials performed their duties without traveling to their assigned posts.