けんぎょう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of けんぎょう – see the following entry.
検校
[noun] carefully examining and correcting matters; the work of doing so
[noun] (in particular) the clerical oversight of religious establishments
[noun] the head of an individual mountain temple or foundation
[noun] the steward of a 荘園 (shōen, manor)
[noun] an honorary court title given to highly skilled blind musicians
[verb] to carefully examine and correct matters
[verb] (in particular) to oversee a religious establishment
(This term, けんぎょう (kengyō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)