藪やぶ入いり

noun

servants' holiday on the 16th of the 1st and 7th months

Archaic term for a traditional holiday when live-in servants were allowed to return home. Observed on January 16 and July 16 in the old lunar calendar.

• 江え戸ど時じ代だい、奉ほう公こう人にんは藪やぶ入いりの日ひに実じっ家かへ帰かえることが許ゆるされた。

  In the Edo period, servants were allowed to return to their family homes on the day of yabuiri.