英和和英

語源

Borrowed from Japanese 割地 (warichi), itself made of 割る (waru, “to divide”) and 地 (chi, “earth”).

名詞

warichi (uncountable)

1. (historical) The redistribution of arable land that became common during the early modern era (seventeenth to nineteenth centuries) in Japan.

   Villages which practiced warichi periodically reassigned land to local farmers.