noun
brave and stalwart man
Archaic literary term for a valiant, robust warrior. Not used in modern everyday Japanese; encountered mainly in classical texts or poetic contexts.
古事記には益荒猛男のような英雄が描かれている。
The Kojiki depicts heroes like brave and stalwart men.
A more common archaic term for a brave man; 益荒猛男 is a rarer, more emphatic variant with the addition of 猛 (fierce).
Compound of 益荒 (masura, 'brave, manly') and 猛男 (takeo, 'fierce man'). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning.