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Hinin

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Hinin 

(literally, nonperson), actors, geishas, beggars, and other categories of the population of feudal Japan regarded along with the eta caste as socially inferior.



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2005 yapimi film Amerikan tari hinin en buyuk boks yildizlarindan Irlanda asilli James Braddock'un gercek yasam oykusunden uyarlanmistir.
Members of the lowest caste were forced to behead, crucify and incinerate over 200,000 criminals so that the hinin would become the object of the people's disgust--while the shogunate ruled without fear of insurrection.
It is good to see that the author has paid attention to the social conditions of the lower classes and the social groups of 'non-people', such as the eta ('polluting' outcasts) and hinin ('non-humans'), who only enjoyed the rights and duties of other imperial subjects from 1871.
 
 
 
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