狂きょう言げん作さく者しゃ

noun

house playwright (of kabuki)

Refers specifically to a playwright attached to a kabuki theater, responsible for writing and adapting plays. A historical and specialized term.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、狂きょう言げん作さく者しゃは歌か舞ぶ伎きの演えん目もくを書かき下おろした。

  In the Edo period, house playwrights wrote new kabuki plays.