客きゃく土ど

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb

foreign topsoil; introduced soil

Agricultural term for soil brought from elsewhere to improve the existing soil. Used as a noun or in する constructions.

• この畑はたけには客きゃく土どを入いれて土ど壌じょう改かい良りょうを行おこなった。

  We improved the soil of this field by introducing foreign topsoil.

• 農のう家かは毎まい年とし、田たんぼに客きゃく土どしている。

  The farmer introduces foreign topsoil to the rice paddy every year.

noun

distant land; faraway destination

Formal or literary term for a far-off place or foreign land. Rare in modern everyday speech.

• 彼かれは客きゃく土どに旅たび立だった。

  He set out for a distant land.