How is 置く used here? A dialogue between a monk and a shogun (fiction), fragment for context: > Shogun: …… > > Monk: **** Is putting instead of just makes it more of a honorific expression? Or is the meaning entirely different?

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> **** …

This usage does carry some honorific weight, but perhaps more importantly it puts emphasis on what you're talking about, as opposed to something else.

> ****

_You My Lord, keep doing as you wish_

> ****

_As for you My Lord, keep doing as you wish_

The connotation here being that, nirvana may be wonderful for some people, but not for the shogun. Therefore, _as for_ him, he may continue being self-centered.