ひゃくしょう

Japanese

For pronunciation and definitions of ひゃくしょう – see the following entry.

【百姓】 [noun] [from circa 1120] (historical or derogatory) a farmer; a peasant; the peasantry in general [noun] [1731] (derogatory) country bumpkin [noun] [from 1759] (historical) in reference to the Edo period, short for 本百姓 (honbyakushō, “the hundred commoner families”, a class of farmers with specific rights and responsibilities) [noun] [from 701] (archaic) commoners, the common people; the masses; ordinary citizens [verb] [from 1906] to farm, to till the fields

(This term, ひゃくしょう (hyakushō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)