げざ

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of げざ – see the following entry.
【下座】
[noun] showing gratitude to a higher-ranking person; falling prostrate
[noun] lower seat, seat at the foot of the table
[noun] (theater, Kabuki) area where the musicians accompanying a Kabuki performance sit, and by extension, the musicians themselves
[noun] (Buddhism) rank of a priest in his first nine years of the priesthood
[verb] to fall prostrate as a show of gratitude or etiquette; to bow deeply
[verb] (of a priest) to descend from the pulpit after completing a sermon
(This term, げざ (geza), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.