夫

gidayū ballad drama (narrative accompanied by a shamisen used in the bunraku puppet theater)

coward; timid man

pimp; procurer; someone who makes their living selling women into prostitution

chimney sweep; chimney sweeper

lamplighter; town employee who lit oil or gas streetlights

foolish man

Humble

(one's) husband

Sometimes derog.

rural scholar

rickshaw man

widower

marrying into the wife's family

foremast hand; common sailor

gidayū reciter

laborer; labourer

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Madama Butterfly (opera by Puccini); Madam Butterfly

having a husband; being married

many people

manly poetic style (e.g. in the Man'yōshū)

second husband

Work of art, literature, music, etc. name

Lady Chatterley's Lover

bamboo wife; Dutch wife

couple in which the wife is bigger than the husband

coarse men and women

street cleaner; garbage man

(system of) optional separate surnames for married couples