circular letter 意味

• 回報｛かいほう｝、回覧状
  

例文

1. hokokamai refers to a kind of punishment for samurai warriors during the edo period , which was the circular letter that was issued to vassal deserters or forfeiters of rank by feudal lords .
   奉公構（ほうこうかまい、ほうこうかまえ）は、江戸時代武士に対する刑の一つで、出奔した家臣又は改易された者に対し大名が出す回状のことをいう。
2. at the beginning of battle of wada , jiro aihara , a " hikan " (low-level bureaucrat ) of " chiba no suke " (assistant governor of chiba province ,) apprehended anenbo , who was carrying a treasonous circular letter , which triggered the revelation of the treason .
   和田合戦の当初、千葉介被官粟飯原次郎なる者が、謀反の回文を持った阿念房を捕らえて謀反露顕の端緒をひらいている。