noun:

• buying the services of a prostitute

noun:

• prostitute and entertainer - archaism ➜ 浮かれ女【うかれめ】

noun:

• female or male prostitute serving a monk; "luring a monk into depredation" [figurative]

noun:

• highest ranking prostitute in Yoshiwara (from the Houreki era onward) ➜ 宝暦【ほうれき】

noun:

• buying the services of a prostitute; whoring ➜ 傾城買い

noun:

• prostitute and entertainer - archaism ➜ さぶる児【さぶるこ】

noun / ~する noun:

• whistling of a prostitute (to attract customers)

noun:

• maid at an inn who served clients and worked as a prostitute (Edo period) ➜ 飯盛り女

noun:

• unlicensed prostitute (Edo period)

noun:

• fee paid for the services of a geisha or prostitute

noun:

• woman who puts thick white powder on her neck; low class prostitute - derogatory term

noun / ~する noun:

• buying sex; hiring a prostitute

noun / ~する noun:

• paying to get someone (esp. a geisha, prostitute, etc.) out of bondage

expression:

• most thrilling relationships for a man (another man's wife, a maidservant, a mistress, a prostitute, and finally his own wife)

noun:

• sexual intercourse (esp. with a prostitute); actual sex (in movies, etc.) - slang ➜ 本番【ほんばん】

noun:

• woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama)

noun:

• employer (esp. of a geisha, prostitute, etc.); master; mistress

noun:

• employer (esp. of a geisha, prostitute, etc.); master; mistress - archaism ➜ 抱え主

noun:

• taking a day off by paying one's own fee to one's master (of a prostitute; often in order to see her lover)

noun:

• hetaira (ancient Greek prostitute)

expression / godan ~る verb:

• to coquet (of a woman); to entice a customer (of a prostitute)
• to flatter; to butter up

noun:

• housecall (doctor, nurse); outcall (prostitute)

noun:

• young man (in the Edo period, esp. one with forelocks who has not yet had his coming-of-age ceremony)
• young male prostitute; young kabuki actor (who may also act as a homosexual prostitute)
• younger partner in a homosexual relationship ➜ 念者【ねんしゃ】

noun / ~の noun:

• amateur; layman; ordinary person; novice Antonym: 玄人【くろうと】

noun:

• respectable woman (not a prostitute, hostess, geisha, etc.) ➜ 玄人【くろうと】
• unlicensed prostitute - archaism - Kyōto dialect ➜ 私娼

adjectival noun:

• honest; respectable

noun:

• respectable occupation (i.e. not yakuza, prostitute, etc.)
• person in a respectable occupation