数す寄き者しゃ

noun

person of refined taste; aesthete; tea ceremony master

Refers to someone deeply versed in traditional Japanese arts, especially tea ceremony, and possessing cultivated aesthetic sensibilities. Often used in historical or cultural contexts.

• 彼かれは茶ちゃの湯ゆに通つうじた数す寄き者しゃとして知しられている。

  He is known as a tea ceremony master with refined taste.

• 数す寄き者しゃの集あつまりで骨こっ董とうの話はなしに花はなが咲さいた。

  At the gathering of aesthetes, conversation about antiques blossomed.

noun

lecher; lewd man

Archaic usage; originally a euphemistic or indirect way to refer to a man of loose morals, derived from the same word 好き者 (sukimono). Rare in modern Japanese.

See also: 好き者

• 古こ典てん文ぶん学がくでは、数す寄き者しゃという言こと葉ばが好こう色しょくな男おとこを指さすことがある。

  In classical literature, the word 数寄者 can refer to a lecherous man.