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A4 Noun
早乙女young female rice planter, young girl
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Noun
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young female rice planter, young girl
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早乙女 【さおとめ】、早少女 【さおとめ】
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昔、田植えをする若い女性のことを「早乙女」と言いました。
In the past, young women who planted rice were called ‘saotome’.
あの女性は田畑で働いているから、昔で言うところの「早乙女」だ。
That woman is working in the rice fields, so she would have been called ‘saotome’ in the past.
私は早乙女で、毎日田畑で汗水を流しています。
I am a young female rice planter, and I sweat and toil in the fields every day.
古くは、「早乙女」のことを「植女」とも呼んでいたと聞きました。
I heard that in ancient times, a "young female rice planter" was also called a "female field worker".
早乙女が田植えをしている風景をカメラに収めるつもりです。
I plan to capture the scene of young female rice planters planting rice in the fields with my camera.
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