朱しゅ印いん状じょう

noun

red-seal license; shogunate trade license

Historical term for an official document bearing a red seal, especially one issued by the shogunate granting permission to trade.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、朱しゅ印いん状じょうを持もつ船ふねだけが海外いがい貿ぼう易えきを許ゆるされた。

  In the Edo period, only ships with a red-seal license were permitted to engage in overseas trade.