Meaning
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.
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).
「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).'
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]).
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.
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).
これに対し個々の農民に対して"百姓"と呼び捨てることは、スティグマをそのまま負の意味で受容させることになり、強い蔑称の意味を含むことになる。
On the contrary, use of the term "hyakusho" to address an individual peasant would be considered as a strong derogatory term, because that causes the peasant to accept the stigma as a negative meaning.
近代になり西洋近代歴史学が導入されるとマルクス主義史観に代表される発展段階史観の概念に基づいた過去の日本の歴史の分析が行われるようになり、歴史的百姓身分を封建制段階における農奴身分と規定することが通説となった。
In the modern times when western modern history was introduced, analysis of Japanese history based on the idea of the evolution phase concept of history, exemplified by Marxist history, was carried out, and it became a common theory that the historical hyakusho rank was defined as a serfdom in the feudalism phase.