[mʲita̠ɾa̠ɕi] (Tokyo) みたらい [<span class="searchmatch">mìtáꜜràì</span>] (Nakadaka – [2]) IPA(key): [mʲita̠ɾa̠i] 御(み)手(た)洗(らし) or 御(み)手(た)洗(らい) • (mitarashi or <span class="searchmatch">mitarai</span>) ←みたらひ (mitarafi)? purifying...
Donald Richie, The Inland Sea, Stone Bridge Press, page 192: The oiran of <span class="searchmatch">Mitarai</span> was not like the geisha. Like the great eighteenth-century courtesans of...
For pronunciation and definitions of みたらい – see the following entry. (This term, みたらい (<span class="searchmatch">mitarai</span>), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)...