high-ranking noh actor; head of a school of noh performance; high ranking courtesan (esp. in Yoshiwara) (Edo-period); jōruri narrator; manzai narrator; female role actor in kabuki; low ranking priest in a Shinto shrine
gidayū (type of reciting used in the puppet theater)
manager (theatrical company)
gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater)
manager of itinerant entertainers (Edo period)
high-ranking noh actor; head of a noh school