裏うら屋や

noun

alley house; rear tenement; slum dwelling

Refers to a small, often poor-quality house or tenement located in a back alley or behind a main street, typically associated with lower-income urban areas in historical or pre-modern contexts.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、裏うら屋やには貧まずしい職しょく人にんや日ひ雇やとい労ろう働どう者しゃが住すんでいた。

  In the Edo period, poor craftsmen and day laborers lived in rear tenements.

• 路ろ地じを入はいると、古ふるい裏うら屋やが立たち並ならんでいた。

  Going into the alley, old alley houses stood in a row.