Meaning
不作 (ふさく, fusaku) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “bad harvest”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
今年はりんごが不作でした
The apple harvest was poor this year.
去年は不作だった。
The crops failed last year.
今年の文学界は不作だ.
This has been a bad year for literary works [the literary world].
今年は米作は不作だった。
The rice crop was scanty this year.
毎年毎年不作続きだった。
They had poor crops year after year.
水不足のため不作だった。
We had a poor harvest because of the lack of water.
洪水のため米は不作だった。
The rice crop was poor, owing to the floods.
女房の悪さは六十年の不作。
A bad wife is the shipwreck of her husband.
不作で食料がひどく不足した。
The bad harvest caused massive food shortages.
不作は日照り続きのためだった。
The drought was blamed for the poor crop.
昨年は雨が多く米は不作だった。
We had a bad rice crop last year because it rained a lot.
異常低温が今年の米の不作の原因である。
Unusually low temperatures account for the poor rice crop this year.