Burakumin
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thumb|Staged photo by Suzuki Shin'ichi I depicting burakumin leather workers, 1873 Burakumin (, "people of the hamlet/village") are an outcaste group in Japan, residing at the bottom of the traditional Japanese social hierarchy. The burakumin's ancestors were outcastes of the pre-modern era, primarily from the Edo period, who were associated with occupations considered impure or tainted by death, such as executioners, undertakers, slaughterhouse workers, butchers, or tanners. They traditionally lived in their own hamlets and neighbourhoods. Although legally liberated in 1871 with the abolition
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- social class
- Subclass of
- outcast
- Named after
- hamlet
- Country
- Japan
- Image
- Jiichiro Matsumoto.JPG
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- Commons category
- Burakumin
- has characteristic
- untouchability
- topic's main category
- Category:Burakumin
- native label
- 穢多
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Article · Español
Los burakumin (部落民 burakumin?) son la clase social más baja de Japón, está constituida por aproximadamente 3 millones de individuos que son étnica y lingüísticamente indistinguibles de los otros japoneses. La discriminación de este grupo social se basa principalmente en razones ocupacionales, más específicamente, en los trabajos realizados por los ancestros desde hace cientos de años.
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