小こ者もの

noun

young person; youth

Historical term for a young person, often in a samurai or feudal context. Not used in modern everyday speech.

• 小こ者ものたちが城しろの周まわりで走はしり回まわっていた。

  The young servants were running around the castle.

noun

servant; errand boy (in a samurai family)

Specifically a low-ranking servant or errand boy in a samurai household during the Edo period or earlier.

• 彼かれは若わかい頃ころ、武ぶ家けの小こ者ものとして働はたらいていた。

  When he was young, he worked as an errand boy for a samurai family.

noun

person of lowly status; underling

General term for a person of low social rank in feudal Japan. Rare and historical.

• 身み分ぶんの低ひくい小こ者ものには発はつ言げん権けんがなかった。

  Low-ranking underlings had no right to speak.