フィギュアヘッド

noun

figurehead

Refers to a person who holds a nominal leadership position without real power, or the carved figure on a ship's prow. The political sense is more common in modern Japanese.

• その組そ織しきの会かい長ちょうは単たんなるフィギュアヘッドに過すぎない。

  The chairman of that organization is merely a figurehead.

• 博はく物ぶつ館かんに古ふるい船ふねのフィギュアヘッドが展てん示じされている。

  An old ship's figurehead is on display at the museum.