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江え戸ど時じ代だい、水みず呑のみ百びゃく姓しょうは自じ分ぶんの田た畑はたを持もたず、小こ作さくや日ひ雇やといで生せい計けいを立たてていた。

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江え戸ど時じ代だい、

Edo period (1603–1868)

水みず呑のみ百びゃく姓しょう

poor peasant; peasant farmer

は

topic marker

grammar

自じ分ぶん

oneself; myself; yourself; himself; herself

possession, attribution, nominalizer, or nominal linker

田た畑はた

fields; farmland; rice paddies and fields

have; own; possess

-> 持つgodan verb

without doing; not doing

小こ作さく

and; such things as

日ひ雇やとい

day labor; daily employment; day laborer

location, means, cause, or scope marker

生せい計けいを立たて

make a living; earn a livelihood

-> 生計を立てるexpression, verb

and; and then; then; because; so; since; by; through; with; although; but; yet; connects to auxiliary verbs (e.g., ている, ていく); forms compound verbs (e.g., やって来る); please (do)

particle, conjunction

be; exist; stay; be ...-ing; have ...-ed; be ...-ed

-> いるichidan verb, auxiliary

past tense or completed action