御ご用よう商しょう人にん

noun

purveyor to the government or Imperial Household

Historical term for a merchant or supplier officially appointed to serve the shogunate, a domain, or the Imperial Household. Now mainly encountered in historical contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、御ご用よう商しょう人にんは幕ばく府ふに物ぶっ資しを納おさめていた。

  In the Edo period, purveyors supplied goods to the shogunate.