·Translator’s Preface by Ian NEARY Foreword by TERAKI Nobuaki List of Figures PART I Chapter 1: Establishment of the Japanese State and the Formation and Transformation of Status · Status in the small states of pre-history · Status in the Yamato state · The creation of the Yamato state and the formation of clans and ranks Chapter 2: Formation of the Ritsury? State Structure and the Status System · The formation of the ritsury? structure · The creation of a senmin system beneath the status system of the ritsury? structures · Senmin in the ritsury? system · The disruption and dismantling of the ritsury? status system · The role played by immigrants and their social position · Strategies and attitudes to those living on the islands to the North, the North-east and the South · The strengthening of discrimination based on ideas of pollution in the Heian period · The origins of occupational discrimination against butchers and leather workers Chapter 3: Formation and Development of Society in the Middle Ages and the Lifestyle and Culture of Discriminated People · The structure and development of society in the Middle Ages · Features of the status system of the Middle Ages · Formation and living conditions of the eta – kiyome, saiku, kawaramono – in the early Middle Ages · Hinin of the early Middle Ages and their way of life · Sanjo and their lives in the early Middle Ages · Transformation of society in the Middle Ages · Work and livelihood of the kawaramono: eta, kiyome and saiku in the late Middle Ages · The work of hinin, sanjo (sh?moji) and their lives in the late Middle Ages · Kawata in the era of Warring States (Sengoku Jidai) Chapter 4: Establishment of Kawata and Ch?ri Status – the Buraku of the Early Modern Period · Rule of the Toyotomi, the early Tokugawa regime, and the kawata/ch?ri · Bakuhan structure of rule and the status system · Formation of the kawata and ch?ri – the Buraku of the early modern period · Reality of the status regulations of the Edo Period · Control of discriminated people and the discrimination policy of the feudal lords in the early Edo Period · Occupations of the kawata and ch?ri in the early Edo Period · Responsibilities of kawata and ch?ri in the early Edo Period Chapter 5: Discriminated Groups of the Early Modern Period · Formation of hinin status groups and their responsibilities · Other discriminated groups Chapter 6: Development of Early Modern (Kinsei) Society and Discriminated People · Social trends in the mid-Edo period and the discrimination policies used by the Bakufu authorities and feudal lords to control discriminated groups · Occupations of the kawata and ch?ri in the mid-Edo period · Social context of discriminated people in the mid-Edo period · Religion and kawata/ch?ri in the mid-Edo period Chapter 7: Dislocation and Collapse of Early Modern Society and Discriminated People · Social trends in late-Edo Japan and discriminated people · Changes in the occupations of the kawata and ch?ri in the later Edo Period · Demographic change among the discriminated communities and its impact · Struggles of discriminated groups and the development of emancipatory thought 108 · Discriminated people and social change on the verge of the Restoration – the eve of the liberation edict PART II Chapter 8: What was the ‘Buraku Problem’ in the Modern Period? · Questioning society · Buraku – discriminated Buraku – D?wa districts · The boundaries that replaced status · Start of the modern Buraku problem –the Liberation Edict · Debate in the K?gisho · Promotion by the Minbush? and the Treasury Chapter 9: Signs of Discrimination Invented · Maintenance of ‘old customs’ · Rejection of discrimination by the ‘Japanese Enlightenment’ · Freedom, people’s rights movement and the ‘Buraku problem’ · New ‘signifiers’ – hotbeds