[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)#6515[Add to Longdo]
[きょうげん, kyougen](n) (1) (See 本狂言, 間狂言) kyogen; farce presented between noh plays or during the interlude of a noh play; (2) kabuki play; kabuki performance; (3) make-believe; ruse; trick; (P)#18044[Add to Longdo]
[のほとりに;のあたりに, nohotorini ; noatarini](exp) (1) (uk) (esp. のほとりに) on the shores of; by the side of (e.g. rivers, ponds); (2) in the neighborhood of; in the neighbourhood of; in the vicinity of; close by; near; by[Add to Longdo]
[dakumadakuma ; dakkumadakkuma](exp, adj-na) (fem) woman's word for the sound of feet thumping across a noh theatre; space of noh theatre based on the reach of the sound of feet thumping[Add to Longdo]
[ういこうぶり;ういかぶり;ういかむり;ういかんむり;しょかん, uikouburi ; uikaburi ; uikamuri ; uikanmuri ; shokan](n, vs) (1) (arch) (See 元服) crowning a boy for the first time at a coming-of-age ceremony; (n) (2) (ういかんむり only) (See 巻纓, 垂纓) noh cap with a rolled or drooping tail (indicative of nobility)[Add to Longdo]
[あたまのうえのはえもおえない(頭の上の蠅も追えない);あたまのはえもおえない(頭の蠅も追えない), atamanouenohaemooenai ( atama no ueno hae mo oe nai ); atamanohaemooenai ( atama no](exp) unable even to drive away the flies on one's own head (denoting a helpless person)[Add to Longdo]