人じん臣しん

noun

subjects; retainers; vassals

Refers to people who serve a monarch or lord; a historical term not used in everyday modern Japanese. Often appears in discussions of feudal or imperial systems.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、人じん臣しんは将しょう軍ぐんに忠ちゅう誠せいを誓ちかった。

  In the Edo period, retainers swore loyalty to the shogun.

• 「人じん臣しん」という言こと葉ばは、君くん主しゅに仕つかえる者ものを指さす歴れき史し的てきな表ひょう現げんです。

  The word 人臣 is a historical expression referring to those who serve a monarch.