also: るざん
Historical term for punishment by sending someone away to a remote place. Modern Japanese more commonly uses 流罪 or 島流し.
Banishment was one of the severe punishments in ancient times.
Rare kanji form; the reading りゅうざん is the standard modern reading. The alternate reading るざん is archaic.
Archaic reading; not used in modern Japanese.
A literary Sino-Japanese compound from 流 “banish” and 竄 “drive away into exile,” both contributing to the sense of expulsion to a distant place.