殿てん上じょう人びと

noun

courtier; court official

Historical term for a person permitted to enter the imperial court in the Heian period and later. Refers specifically to those of the fifth rank or above who had access to the emperor's residence.

• 殿てん上じょう人びとは、清せい涼りょう殿でんの殿てん上じょう間かんに昇のぼることが許ゆるされた貴き族ぞくである。

  A tenjōbito was a noble permitted to ascend to the tenjō-no-ma room of the Seiryōden.

• 彼かれは五ご位いに叙じょせられ、晴はれて殿てん上じょう人びととなった。

  He was granted the fifth rank and formally became a courtier.