Is this seat being chased, or is the person in it being chased from it? In my JLPT textbook, I have this sentence: > {}{}{}{}{}{}{} I think this sentence means, "He betrayed the trust of the people. As a result, it was the case that he was chased out of his seat of power." "Seat of power" may be overly literal, it's probably more like his seat in the Diet or something, but that's not the part I'm concerned with. It's the `{}{}{}` part. From the overall context of the sentence, I'm guessing the guy was chased **from** the seat. But, from the grammar, because of the `` particle that points directly to the chair, it feels like it _should_ mean the seat itself had been chased. Am I right that it means the guy was chased from the chair? If so, why does `{}{}` not mean the chair got chased? If I'm wrong about the meaning, then what does it mean?

If the chair was chased, the phrase would be `{}{}{}` passively or `{}{}{}` actively.

Back to the question, this `` particle means `from`. I guess you have no problem with `{}{}` (move away from Tokyo). Another grammatically correct phrase is `{}{}{}` (move away from the seat).

Actually, you can say `{}{}` for being chased away from Tokyo. Analogously, you can say `{}{}{}`. For me, the best way to understand the phrase in question is, seeing `{}` as a substitute for `{}` or `{}` (leave).