英日字典： 太夫
太夫
- (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)
