名主

なぬし, みょうしゅnanushi

noun

  1. village headman (esp. in the Kanto region)
  2. nominal holder of an allocated rice field (ritsuryō system)

Kanji in this word

Study it in Yanamino

Data from JMdict, KANJIDIC2 (EDRDG), KanjiVG, CC-CEDICT and Make Me a Hanzi. Sources and licences