noun:

• villain's part

noun:

• way of cooking; a cook

noun:

• propman; sceneshifter

noun:

• setting; placement

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:

• choice

adverbial noun:

• since

pronoun / ~の noun:

• this person

suffix:

• Sirs; Mesdames - pluralizing suffix - honorific language
• around (the time that, etc.); about - also かた

noun:

• separating words with spaces - obscure term ➜ 分かち書き

noun:

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

pronoun:

• this one; this way; this method

noun:

• root; lower part

noun:

• San-in region of western Honshu (incl. Tottori, Shimane, northern Yamaguchi and sometimes northern Hyogo and Kyoto prefectures)

noun:

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

noun:

• in all directions - four character idiom

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

expression:

• what action to take; what to do with oneself

noun:

• Kyoto-Shiga district

noun:

• rural area