Goze

is a Japanese historic term referring to visually-impaired Japanese women, most of whom worked as musicians.
The ideographs for mean "blind" and "woman." The kanji are so because the individual ideograph for already existed. is most likely derived from , which also means "blind woman" ( is a formal second-person pronoun). Although the term can be found in medieval records, other terms such as , were also in use (especially in written records) until the... meer