Goze (瞽女) is a Japanese historic term referring to visually impaired Japanese women, of whom most worked as musicians. The ideographs for goze mean "blind" and "woman." The ideographs are, however, read in this manner because the word goze already existed. In fact, it probably derived from the term mekura gozen (盲御前), which also means blind woman (gozen is a formal second-person pronoun). Although the term goze can be found in medieval records, other terms such as mōjo (盲女), jomō (女盲) and the like were also in use (especially in written records) until the modern …
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Goze (瞽女) is a Japanese historic term referring to visually impaired Japanese women, of whom most worked as musicians. The ideographs for goze mean "blind" and "woman." The ideographs are, however, read in this manner because the word goze already existed. In fact, it prob…
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Goze (瞽女) is a Japanese historic term referring to visually impaired Japanese women, of whom most worked as musicians. The ideographs for goze mean "blind" and "woman." The ideographs are, however, read in this manner because the word goze already existed. In fact, it probably derived from the term mekura gozen (盲御前), which also means blind wo…
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