noun:

• way of cooking; a cook

noun:

• child's role in noh dance; child actor (in noh)
• henchman; follower ➜ 親方

noun:

• singer in a nagauta performance ➜ 長唄【ながうた】

noun:

• one person - honorific language

adjectival noun:

• ordinary; common - often in negative form

noun:

• partner (esp. in manzai); companion ［相方］ ➜ 漫才
• partner for the night (e.g. at a brothel)

noun:

• wife's family

noun:

• the way (to somewhere); how to reach (a place)

noun:

• root; lower part

noun:

• outside daimyo; non-Tokugawa daimyo - abbreviation ➜ 外様大名
• outsider; one not included in the favored (favoured) group

noun:

• inside; your wife

noun:

• day laborer (in construction, etc.); day labourer - obscure term

noun:

• theatre staff who deals with the audience (e.g. ticket-taker, usher) ➜ 裏方

noun:

• rural area