Aotagai

青田買い (Aotagai) is a Japanese noun meaning “speculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green, recruiting of university students before the agreed date”.

Meanings

  1. nounspeculatively buying a rice harvest, while the fields are still green
  2. nounrecruiting of university students before the agreed date

Kanji in 青田買い

bluerice fieldbuy

Related words

rice fieldto buybluegreen willow (i.e. one that has budded)tradeshoppinglush mountainJapanese laurel (Aucuba japonica)rural areanew rice fielddeep-mud paddyacquisition (esp. corporate)