| よし(P);よーし;ようし | [yoshi (P); yo-shi ; youshi] (int) alright; all right; right on; looking good; OK; okay; (P) #1,984 [Add to Longdo] |
| 由 | [よし, yoshi] (n) reason; significance; cause; (P) #4,461 [Add to Longdo] |
| 太夫;大夫 | [たゆう, tayuu] (n) (1) (See 能太夫) high-ranking Noh actor; (2) head of a school of noh performance; (3) high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); (4) (See 浄瑠璃, 万歳・まんざい) joruri narrator; manzai narrator; (5) (See 女形) female role actor in kabuki; (6) (See 御師) low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine; (7) (太夫 only) lord steward (formerly the fifth court rank) #6,515 [Add to Longdo] |
| 呼び出し(P);呼出し;呼出(io) | [よびだし, yobidashi] (n, vs) (1) (See 呼び出す・よびだす・1) call; summons; (n) (2) sumo usher who calls the names of wrestlers, sweeps the ring, etc.; (3) (abbr) (See 呼び出し電話) telephone number at which a person without a telephone can be reached; (4) (arch) (See 陸湯) box-shaped area containing clean water for rinsing oneself (in an Edo-period bathhouse); (5) (arch) high-ranking prostitute in the Yoshiwara district (Edo period); (6) (arch) unlicensed prostitute in the Fukagawa red-light district (Edo period); (P) #9,734 [Add to Longdo] |
| 勝山 | [かつやま, katsuyama] (n) woman's hairstyle (Edo period) (made popular by a Yoshiwara prostitute called Katsuyama) #10,671 [Add to Longdo] |
| 葦;蘆;葭;芦 | [あし;よし;アシ;ヨシ, ashi ; yoshi ; ashi ; yoshi] (n, adj-no) (uk) common reed (Phragmites australis) #16,393 [Add to Longdo] |
| 太閤 | [たいこう, taikou] (n) Toyotomi Hideyoshi; father of the Imperial adviser (advisor) #16,719 [Add to Longdo] |
| ありんす | [arinsu] (exp) variation of "arimasu" used by the prostitutes of the Yoshiwara red light district in the Edo period [Add to Longdo] |
| ありんすことば | [arinsukotoba] (n) language used by the harlots of the Yoshiwara red light district during the Edo period [Add to Longdo] |
| およしなさい | [oyoshinasai] (exp) please stop [Add to Longdo] |
