作さく男おとこ

noun

farmhand; tenant farmer

Historical term for a male agricultural laborer or tenant farmer, especially in pre-modern Japan. Not used for modern farm workers.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、作さく男おとこは地じ主ぬしの田た畑はたで働はたらいた。

  In the Edo period, farmhands worked on the landlord's fields.