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わし: I (old man)
Character speech · 01 I and you
First-person pronoun of elderly men, professors and sages.
Written わし or 儂. Typical with 〜じゃ and 〜のう. Also used regionally by older men in western Japan. A young man using it sounds old-fashioned or comic.
Examples
わしはもう年寄りじゃ。
I am an old man now.
わしが若い頃は貧乏じゃった。
When I was young, I was poor.