扶ふ持ち

noun

stipend; salary paid in rice

Historical term for a samurai's salary, typically paid in rice. Used in contexts of feudal Japan.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、武ぶ士しは扶ふ持ちをもらって生せい活かつしていた。

  In the Edo period, samurai lived on a stipend.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', transitive verb

making a retainer and granting a stipend

Historical term for the act of taking someone into service as a retainer and providing them with a stipend. Often used in the form 扶持する.

• 主しゅ君くんは彼かれを扶ふ持ちし、家か臣しんとして迎むかえた。

  The lord made him a retainer and granted him a stipend.