官かん有ゆう地ち

noun

state-owned land; crown land

Archaic term for land owned by the national government, used in pre-modern and early modern Japanese contexts. Equivalent to modern 国有地.

See also: 国有地

• 明めい治じ時じ代だい、多おおくの官かん有ゆう地ちが民みん間かんに払はらい下さげられた。

  In the Meiji period, much state-owned land was sold off to the private sector.