肥こえ汲くみ

noun

night-soil collector; night-soil man/woman

Historical occupation: a person who collected human waste (night-soil) for use as fertilizer. Now an obsolete profession.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だいには肥こえ汲くみが各かく家か庭ていから排はい泄せつ物ぶつを集あつめていた。

  In the Edo period, night-soil collectors gathered excrement from each household.

noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru'

night-soil removal; collection of human waste

Refers to the act or process of collecting night-soil, often as a noun or with する. Historical context.

• 農のう村そんでは肥こえ汲くみをして田た畑はたの肥ひ料りょうにした。

  In farming villages, they carried out night-soil removal and used it as fertilizer for the fields.