Word Meaning 裏方
うらかた
urakata
裏方 is read as うらかた (urakata) and means lady consort (to a high personage).
Meaning
English
- lady consort (to a high personage)
- someone working behind-the-scenes
- scene shifter
Reading
Kana
うらかた
Romaji
urakata
Stroke Sequence
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2いわゆる裏方仕事もたくさんあります。
There's also a great deal of so called behind-the-scenes work.
大学出たての新人は資料を作ったり、コピーをとったりと裏方仕事に徹するのだろうと、勝手に想像していたのですが見事に裏切られました。
I had imagined that the newbies fresh from university would probably be stuck with all the backstage work - collecting reference material, getting copies and such but I couldn't have been proved more wrong.