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The burakumin (部落民, 'hamlet/village people') are a social grouping of Japanese people descended from members of the feudal class associated with kegare (穢れ, 'impurity'), mainly those with occupations related to death such as executioners, gravediggers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, and tanners. Burakumin are physically ...
(Ancient Greece) any non-Greek b. (Ancient China) any non-Chinese, but applied especially upon non-Confucianist cultures c. (Ancient Rome) Most people outside of the Roman Empire, derived from the Greek term d. (Renaissance Italy) One of a nation outside of Italy. e. One outside the pale of Christian civilization. f.
Burakumin (部落民) is a designation of Japanese Second-class status meaning the people who are from a place called a "buraku". "Buraku" basically means a village or small district. "Buraku" basically means a village or small district.
Hinin could be adopted by poor commoners and commoners having committed crimes. The Hinin status was hereditary. Unlike Eta, it was possible for the offspring of hinin to rejoin the commoner class, as long as they met some requirements.
The term has also been used to refer to other groups, including the Burakumin of Japan, the Baekjeong of Korea, and the Ragyabpa of Tibet, as well as the Romani people and Cagot in Europe, and the Al-Akhdam in Yemen.
Japan had its own untouchable caste, shunned and ostracised, historically referred to by the insulting term eta, now called burakumin. While modern law has officially abolished the class hierarchy, there are reports of discrimination against the buraku or burakumin underclasses. [54] The burakumin are regarded as "ostracised". [55]
burakumin: peddlers, street stall operators tekiya: ritual cutting of the joint of the little finger to atone for a mistake yubitsume: ritual sharing of sake to form a binding relationship; rooted in Shinto tradition sakazuki: underling (lit. "child role") kobun: violence group bōryokudan
Kenji Nakagami (中上健次, Nakagami Kenji, August 2, 1946 – August 12, 1992) was a Japanese novelist and essayist.He is well known as the first, and so far the only, post-war Japanese writer to identify himself publicly as a Burakumin, a member of one of Japan's long-suffering outcaste groups.