とさか

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Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of とさか – see the following entry.
鶏冠
a comb, cockscomb (fleshy crest of a rooster)
(colloquial) Short for 鶏冠海苔 (tosaka nori): a species of red algae, Meristotheca papulosa
(theater) a kind of wig used in kabuki, with the front hair cut and split apart on the sides; used by onnagata to portray old hags
(This term, とさか (tosaka), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)