What is "mama-sans"

Usage examples of "mama-sans".

By this time her son was an open secret with both mama-sans who, of course, had her watched, and followed.

As always, mama-sans and older, more experienced courtesans gentled them, repeating the same dogma that Meikin was saying to Teko, Koiko's maiko, now in tears, who was to make her debut as a courtesan this night, "Dry your tears, Moonbeam, accept without thinking the sad impermanence of life, accept what lies ahead, laugh with your sisters, enjoy wine and song and your pretty clothes, gaze at the moon or at a flower and drift with the current of life like a gourd drifting downstream.

Not all of the mama-sans approved, saying the added expense was not merited.

Five hundred koku was more than most Mama-sans made in a lifetime, so for one of them even to consider giving away five hundred .

Soon you'll be the greatest of all Mama-sans, and whatever happens, well, Kiku-san's still your protegee and her youth's not touched, neither is her karma.

Then, everything completed - even the formal cha invitation tomorrow to the eight most influential Mama-sans in Mishima to discuss a matter of great import - she sank gratefully into a perfect bath, "Ahhhhhhhhh!