お姉さん(P);御姉さん | [おねえさん, oneesan] (n) (1) (hon) (usu. お姉さん) (See 姉さん) elder sister; (2) (vocative) young lady; (3) (usu. お姐さん) miss (referring to a waitress, etc.); (4) (usu. お姐さん) ma'am (used by geisha to refer to their superiors); (P) |
下地っ子 | [したじっこ, shitajikko] (n) young boy or girl being trained as a geisha or as a kabuki actor |
姉さん(P);姐さん | [ねえさん(P);あねさん, neesan (P); anesan] (n) (1) (hon) (usu. 姉さん) elder sister; (2) (vocative) young lady; (3) (usu. 姐さん) miss (referring to a waitress, etc.); (4) (usu. 姐さん) ma'am (used by geisha to refer to their superiors); (P) |
左褄を取る | [ひだりづまをとる, hidaridumawotoru] (exp,v5r) (arch) to become a geisha; to work as a geisha |
待合(P);待ち合い;待合い | [まちあい, machiai] (n,vs) (1) meeting place; assignation place; (2) geisha entertaining room; teahouse; machiai; (P) |
御勤め;お勤め | [おつとめ, otsutome] (n) (1) (arch) (pol) one's business; (2) reading of scriptures before a (statue of) Buddha; (3) bargain; discount; (4) money paid to a prostitute or geisha |
新子;新妓 | [しんこ, shinko] (n) (1) (新子 only) (See 鮗・このしろ) very young fish (esp. a konoshiro gizzard shad); (2) (arch) new geisha |
検番;見番 | [けんばん, kenban] (n) (1) geisha call-office; assignation office for geisha; (2) (See 検番芸者) geisha on call |
検番芸者 | [けんばんげいしゃ, kenbangeisha] (n) (See 検番) geisha belonging to a call-office (usually a skilled geisha) |
歌妓 | [かぎ, kagi] (n) woman who earns her living by entertaining with song, dance and playing the shamisen; geisha who sings at parties |
玉代 | [ぎょくだい, gyokudai] (n) time charge for a geisha |
羽織芸者 | [はおりげいしゃ, haorigeisha] (n) (col) (See 辰巳芸者) geisha from the Fukagawa red light district in Edo (Edo period) |
花街;花町 | [かがい(花街);はなまち, kagai ( hana machi ); hanamachi] (n) red-light district; prostitution quarter; geisha quarter |
芸娼妓解放令 | [げいしょうぎかいほうれい, geishougikaihourei] (n) ordinance liberating all geisha and prostitutes (1872) |
芸者を上げる | [げいしゃをあげる, geishawoageru] (exp,v1) to call in a geisha |
落籍 | [らくせき, rakuseki] (n,vs) (1) lack of registration (in the census register); (2) (See 身請け) buying a geisha or prostitute her contractual freedom |
襟替え;襟換え | [えりがえ, erigae] (n) (See 半玉,舞子・1) becoming a geisha (of a geisha apprentice) |
請け出す;受け出す;請出す | [うけだす, ukedasu] (v5s,vt) (1) to redeem; to take out of pawn; (2) (See 身請け) to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage (by paying off her debt to her employer) |
身請け金;身請金;身請銀 | [みうけがね;みうけきん(身請け金;身請金), miukegane ; miukekin ( miuke ke kin ; miuke kin )] (n) (See 身請け) money needed to buy a geisha or prostitute out of bondage |
都踊り;都をどり(ik) | [みやこをどり(都をどり);みやこおどり(都踊り), miyakowodori ( miyako wodori ); miyakoodori ( miyako odori )] (n) dance performance held in April by geisha and maiko in Kyoto's Gion district |