本領安堵
ほんりょうあんど
Meanings
- Noun recognition and guarantee, by the shogunate, of ownership of the inherited estate of a samurai who pledged allegiance to it (in the Kamakura and early Muromachi periods)
Kanji
- 本 origin. Read as ホン.
- 領 territory. Read as リョウ.
- 安 safe. Read as アン.
- 堵 fence; railing; enclosure. Read as ト.