A loyal retainer or subject who devotes fidelity to their lord or country; often used in historical or literary contexts to describe a person of loyalty.
彼は主君のために命を投げ出した忠臣として語り継がれた。
He was remembered as a loyal retainer who sacrificed his life for his lord.
忠臣蔵は忠臣たちの物語として有名だ。
Chushingura is famous as a story of loyal retainers.
時代劇では忠臣の美学が度々描かれる。
Period dramas often portray the aesthetics of loyal retainers.