Outcaste status after equality -- A status society -- Outcaste status -- Rationality, enlightenment and outcaste abolition -- Defiled bloodlines -- Foreign origins as stigma -- The stigma of place -- Assimilation as liberation
Summary
The Tokugawa Shogunate, which governed Japan for two and a half centuries until the mid-1860s, classed people into hierarchically ranked status groups (mibun). The early Tokugawa rulers legally established these status groups through the late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth centuries, adapting and clarifying existing customary divisions between warriors, peasants, artisans, and merchants. Subsequently, during the two and a half centuries of Tokugawa rule, status laws backed by coercive force worked to limit social mobility between groups and regulate relations between people of dif
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