裏方

Meanings

1. Noun

   someone working behind-the-scenes; scene shifter
2. lady consort (to a high personage)

• いわゆる裏方うらかた仕事しごともたくさんあります。

  There's also a great deal of so called behind-the-scenes work.

• 大学だいがく出でたての新人しんじんは資料しりょうを作つくったり、コピーをとったりと裏方うらかた仕事しごとに徹てっするのだろうと、勝手かってに想像そうぞうしていたのですが見事みごとに裏切うらぎられました。

  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.