老ろう中じゅう

noun

senior councillor; member of the shogun's council of elders

Historical term for a high-ranking official in the Edo-period shogunate. The reading ろうぢゅう is a historical kana spelling.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、老ろう中じゅうは幕ばく府ふの重じゅう要ような政せい策さく決けっ定ていに関かかわった。

  In the Edo period, the rōjū were involved in important policy decisions of the shogunate.