格子女郎
こうしじょろう
- prostitute of the second rank (below the tayū) (Edo period) n
Kanji
格
カク • コウ • キャク • ゴウ
status; rank; capacity; character; case (law, grammar)
子
シ • ス • ツ
こ • -こ • ね
child; sign of the rat; 11PM-1AM; first sign of Chinese zodiac
女
ジョ • ニョ • ニョウ
おんな • め
woman; female
郎
ロウ • リョウ
おとこ
son; counter for sons
Synonyms
太夫
たゆう
- high-ranking noh actor n
- head of a school of noh performance n
- high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period) n
- jōruri narrator; manzai narrator n
- female role actor in kabuki n
- low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine n
- lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) n