大おお蔵くら

noun

Ministry of Finance; Finance Ministry

Government/institutional term, especially as a shortened reference to the former Japanese 大蔵省, now 財務省. Often appears in historical or journalistic contexts.

• 当とう時じの大おお蔵くらは、予よ算さん編へん成せいで大おおきな力ちからを持もっていた。

  At the time, the Ministry of Finance had great power over budget compilation.

• 大おお蔵くら省しょうは2001年ねんに財ざい務む省しょうへ改かい組そされた。

  The Ministry of Finance was reorganized as the Ministry of Finance under its current name in 2001.