Practice JLPTMeaning
百姓 (ひゃくしょう, hyakushou) is a bonus vocabulary word meaning “farmer; peasant”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
彼は 百姓 仕事をしてみたいと 思っている
He thinks he'd like to try farm work.
とお百姓さん。
said the farmer.
堯蓂日杲 百姓帰家」。
Red-letter grass grows, the sun rises high and shines, and farmers return home (that is, Ieyasu TOKUGAWA will conquer a country).'
彼の両親はお百姓でした。
His parents were farmers.
いわゆる百姓一揆のこと。
This is generally known as "hyakusho ikki" (peasant's revolt).
彼の 両親はお 百姓でした。
His parents were farmers.
百姓にとっては 花より 果が 大切である。
For the peasant, fruits are more important than flowers.
お 百姓さんはそれを 聞いて 喜ぶに 違いない。
The farmers must be happy to hear that.
その一方で、本所の配下になることを忌避する百姓神主も存在した。
There also were hyakusho priests who refused to serve under honjo.
対して石高を所持する者が百姓（本百姓・高持・高持百姓）と呼ばれる。
On the other hand, peasants with their own harvesting lands were called Hyakusyo (Hon Byakusho [real peasant], Takamochi [with harvesting land], Takamochi Byakusho [peasant with harvesting land]).
また、村役人を勤める百姓を大前百姓、そのような役職に就かない百姓を小前百姓と呼ぶようになった。
Hyakusho who held the position of a village officer were called omae-byakusho (wealthy farmers), whereas hyakusho who did not hold such a position were called komae-byakusho (small farmers).「
アンシャンレジームの 特徴の 一つは、 百姓 以外は、 殆ど 誰もが 特権をもっていたと 言うことです。
One of the characteristics of the Ancien Régime is that almost everybody had privileges, except peasants.