車しゃ夫ふ

noun

rickshaw puller; rickshaw driver

Historical term for a person who pulls or drives a rickshaw (人力車). Now mostly encountered in historical or literary contexts.

• 明めい治じ時じ代だい、車しゃ夫ふは街まち中なかで客きゃくを待まっていた。

  In the Meiji era, rickshaw pullers waited for customers in the streets.

• 彼かれの祖そ父ふは若わかい頃ころ、車しゃ夫ふとして働はたらいていたそうだ。

  I heard his grandfather worked as a rickshaw man when he was young.