samurai / wait upon, serve

(historical) a warrior class in medieval and pre-modern Japan; samurai / a servant / a retainer / Short for 侍所 (samurai-dokoro): the Board of Retainers in the Kamakura and Muromachi periods.

a servant / a retainer / a warrior; particularly, a samurai / Synonym of 下侍 (shimosaburai): / Short for 侍所 (saburai-dokoro): a samurai guardhouse in the Heian period

to wait for a chance / to serve by one's side

to serve by one's side / (copula) to be

(copula) to be / verbal suffix

bodyguard

alternate name of 蔵人

Chinese equivalent of 中納言 (chūnagon): a middle councilor in the imperial Council of State