床とこ山やま

noun

hairdresser for sumo wrestlers and actors; wigmaker for actors

A specialist who styles traditional Japanese hair and wigs, primarily for sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors. Not a general hairdresser.

• 力りき士しの髷まげは床とこ山やまが結ゆう。

  A tokoyama dresses the sumo wrestler's topknot.

• 歌か舞ぶ伎きの床とこ山やまはかつらの準じゅん備びもする。

  Kabuki tokoyama also prepare wigs.

noun

hairdressing room in Edo-period kabuki

Historical term for the backstage room where tokoyama worked during the Edo period. Rarely used in modern contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの芝しば居い小屋ごやには床とこ山やまと呼よばれる部屋へやがあった。

  In Edo-period playhouses, there was a room called tokoyama.