A professional singer.
"The New Year came, and there was caroling. Numbers of young courtiers had fine voices, and from this select group only the best received the royal appointment as carolers. Kaoru was named master of one of the two choruses and Yugiri's son the lieutenant was among the musicians. There was a bright, cloudless moon, almost at full, as they left the main palace for the Reizei Palace."
Murasaki Shikibu, The Tale of Genji (11th Century)
Translated by Edward G. Seidensticker.
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