ひゃくしょう

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Japanese

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百姓
(historical or derogatory) a farmer; a peasant; the peasantry in general
(derogatory) country bumpkin
(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)
(archaic) commoners, the common people; the masses; ordinary citizens
to farm, to till the fields
(This term, ひゃくしょう (hyakushō), is the hiragana spelling of the above term.)