In Edo-period humorous books, crows were sometimes called 烏勘左衛門.
tanned person; dark-skinned person
Obsolete derogatory term likening a dark-skinned person to a crow.
In old language, a sun-tanned person was sometimes mocked as 烏勘左衛門.
Archaic term for being broke, possibly from the image of a crow's blackness suggesting emptiness.
烏勘左衛門 was once used to describe a penniless state.