苗なわ代しろ時どき

noun

time to prepare a rice nursery

Archaic term referring to the season for preparing rice seedling beds (苗代). Not used in modern everyday speech; encountered in historical or agricultural contexts.

• 苗なわ代しろ時どきは、昔むかしの農のう家かにとって一いち年ねんで最もっとも忙いそがしい時じ期きの一ひとつだった。

  The time for preparing rice nurseries was one of the busiest seasons of the year for farmers in the past.