名な子ご

noun

lower-class peasant; peasant working for a landowner

Historical term for a peasant of low status during the Middle Ages and early modern period, often working under a 本百姓 (honbyakushō, full-fledged farmer).

See also: 本百姓

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいの農のう村そんでは、名な子ごは本ほん百びゃく姓しょうに従じゅう属ぞくして耕こう作さくを行おこなっていた。

  In Edo-period villages, the nago cultivated the land under the authority of the honbyakushō.