盛者しょうじゃ

noun

prosperous person; powerful person

Refers to a person who is flourishing, influential, or at the height of their power. Often used in literary or historical contexts, such as the famous opening of the Heike Monogatari: 盛者必衰 (the prosperous must decline).

• 盛者必衰しょうじゃひっすいのことわざの通とおり、彼かれの権けん力りょくも長ながくは続つづかなかった。

  As the proverb 'the prosperous must decline' says, his power did not last long.

• 歴れき史しを振ふり返かえると、盛者しょうじゃと呼よばれた人ひと々びともやがて没ぼつ落らくしていった。

  Looking back at history, even those called prosperous people eventually fell.