奉ほう公こう先さき

noun

employer's house; employer; place of apprenticeship

Historical term for the household or master where one served as a live-in apprentice or domestic servant, common in the Edo period. The word can refer to the physical house, the employer, or the apprenticeship itself.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、若わか者ものは奉ほう公こう先さきで読よみ書かきや礼れい儀ぎを学まなんだ。

  In the Edo period, young people learned reading, writing, and manners at their place of apprenticeship.

• 彼かれは十じゅっ歳さいで奉ほう公こう先さきへ出だされた。

  He was sent out to his employer's house at the age of ten.