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Kotomora

肥こえ取とり

Meanings

1

noun

night-soil collector

Historical occupation; refers to a person who collected human waste for use as fertilizer. Now obsolete in modern Japan.

2

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

night-soil removal

The act or process of collecting human waste for fertilizer. Also a historical term; the verb form 肥取りする is possible but rare.