汲くみ取とり屋や

noun

night soil collector

Historical occupation; refers to a person who collected human waste for use as fertilizer. Now obsolete in modern Japan, but may appear in historical contexts or colloquial references.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには、汲くみ取とり屋やが町まちの排はい泄せつ物ぶつを集あつめて農のう家かに売うっていた。

  In the Edo period, night soil collectors gathered waste from the town and sold it to farmers.