Ancient Japanese institutions

retired emperor in Japan

Japanese emperor who abdicated and entered the Buddhist monastic community by receiving the Pravrajya rite

year(s) of the reign of a sovereign (in ordinal timeline)

The Bemin (部民) was a caste during the Yamato period of ancient Japan. Most of them were farmers, but some had special skills and were known as Shinabe. They paid tribute and performed labor for the powerful families, but unlike servants, they lived a family life. The "bemin system" was a social system in Japan prior to the Taika Reforms. It divided the population into and "", with the bemin being governed by the nobility and the heimin being governed directly by the central government. The bemin were divided into three categories: those governed by the nobility, those governed by the central g