"Kagemusha" (the body double) is a person, during the Sengoku period (the period of warring states), employed by a busho (a Japanese military commander) as his straw man dressed in the identical clothes as his. |
影武者(かげむしゃ)とは、日本の戦国時代 (日本)の武将などが用いた、自分と同じ服装をさせて身代わりとさせた人物のこと。 |