hōshi
1. service; ministry
2. offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free
★ Common
Noun
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observance, offer, present, dedicate
1. service; ministry
2. offering goods at a reduced price; providing a service for free
1. magistrate's office
1. restoring (power, etc.) to the emperor
1. (Edo-period) town magistrate
1. magistrate of Nagasaki (Edo period)
1. voluntary activity; voluntary service
1. chief financial official (Edo period); commissioner of finance
2. chief accountant in a daimyo's service (Muromachi period)
1. adherent; devotee
1. one's employer's house; one's employer
1. accompanying; being in attendance on
2. inner offerer (any of the 10 high-ranking monks serving at the inner offering hall)