娘むすめ分ぶん

noun

treated as a daughter; adopted daughter figure

Refers to a girl or woman who is treated like one's own daughter, often in a non-biological, familial or mentor-like relationship. Can also describe the act of treating someone as a daughter.

• 彼かの女じょは師し匠しょうの娘むすめ分ぶんとして大たい切せつに育そだてられた。

  She was raised with great care as her master's daughter figure.

• あの子こは私わたしにとって娘むすめ分ぶんのような存そん在ざいだ。

  That child is like a daughter to me.

noun

geisha house manager (Edo period)

Archaic term for a woman who managed geisha in the Edo period. Not used in modern Japanese.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの遊ゆう郭かくでは、娘むすめ分ぶんが芸げい者しゃたちの世せ話わをしていた。

  In the pleasure quarters of the Edo period, the 'musumebun' took care of the geisha.