Illustration: At the shared gate of several small rented vegetable plots, the landowner receives a plain payment envelope from one gardener while another waits with an identical envelope. She holds the gate's key and gestures across the full stretch of land bounded by a single fence.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

地じ主ぬし

jinushi

landowner, landlord

Example sentences

  1. その地主じぬしは以前いぜんかなり裕福ゆうふくな暮くらしをしていた。

    The landlord used to be quite well off.

    Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FR · Source

  2. 当時とうじの繁華街はんかがいであり、延暦寺えんりゃくじが地主じぬし。

    This was the busy town area of that time and the landowner was the Enryaku-ji Temple.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

  3. 寄生きせい地主じぬしの中なかには質屋しちやなどの金融業きんゆうぎょうを兼業けんぎょうした。

    Some parasitic landlords had a side business as a moneylender such as a pawnshop.

    KFTT corpus (NICT), Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Source

Kanji in 地主

  • 地ground; earthOnチ・ジ
  • 主lord; chiefOnシュ・ス・シュウKunぬし・おも・あるじ

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