The top courtesan in a pleasure house was sometimes called "oshoku," but it is said that the word was used in komise, not in nakamise and omise.
なお、店の筆頭である遊女を「お職」と呼ぶことがあるが、本来は小見世で呼んだ言葉で、大見世・中見世では使わなかったという。