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Identifier: japanjapaneseill00humb (find matches)
Title: Japan and the Japanese illustrated
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Humbert, Aimé, 1819-1900 Bates, Henry Walter, 1825-1892 Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908
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Publisher: London : R. Bentley & son
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- to the elements. There is a class still lower than that of the Ycdas. (iropcrly so called, that isto say the artisans who prarti<e unclean arts, such as skinners, tanners, leather 288 LIFE IN JAPAN. dressers; aud one lower still, public executioners, purveyors of vice, lepers, cripples,reo-istered beo-o-ars; tbcn comes a final category of individuals held in the extremedecree of Ic^al infamy, it is the class of Christans, the tolerated descendantsof such of tlie native Christian families as were not entirely destroyed in the great
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TIIK END OF THE IAUI.l. persecution of tlie 17ili century. Their condition is worse than that of the mereYudas, who livt nniong tliemselves in freedom, outside the city boundaries ; soutterly ignored l>y ilic law, that the space of ground occupied by their camp ofthatched huts does not count in (he raeasurcnioiit plans. The Christans, on thecontrary, are assigned a miserable crowded quarter in tin city, like the ghetto of the THE UlUUSTASS. 28y Jews ill tlic Middle Ages, wliiili is virtuallv a prison. The police keep watch overthem until they have drawn their last breath, and it is their business to remove thetorpses, and dispose of them somehow,—no one knows where or how ; but so thatthe name of tlie crucified one shall not be pronounced over their ashes.

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