裏方

Meaning

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

Example sentences

• 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.