本ほん百びゃく姓しょう

noun

freeholding farmer (Edo period)

Historical term for a farmer who owned land and paid taxes directly to the feudal lord during the Edo period, as opposed to tenant farmers or landless peasants.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、本ほん百びゃく姓しょうは年ねん貢ぐを納おさめる義ぎ務むがあった。

  During the Edo period, freeholding farmers were obligated to pay land taxes.