Religious mendicants in premodern Osaka

The tremendous urban development in 17th century Japan led to the proliferation of beggars that the authorities sought to control. In the case of Osaka, some discriminated groups, relegated into ghettos -- the hinin -- had turned to begging as their main livelihood. But there were also other who use...

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Published in:Annales : histoire, sciences sociales (French ed.) sciences sociales (French ed.), 2011-10, Vol.66 (4), p.1053-1077
Main Author: Takashi, Tsukada
Format: Article
Language:fre
Subjects:
17th century
Beggars
Cities
Citizens
Ghetto
Ghettos
Japan
Osaka
Patronage
Religious orders
Seventeenth Century
Social Interest
Urban Development
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Summary:The tremendous urban development in 17th century Japan led to the proliferation of beggars that the authorities sought to control. In the case of Osaka, some discriminated groups, relegated into ghettos -- the hinin -- had turned to begging as their main livelihood. But there were also other who used religious pretext to ask for alms, sometimes in exchange of various performances. Those individuals generally came from respectable groups but had been reduced to begging, and were in competition with others for the charity of citizens. They sometimes sought to consolidate their position by forming associations under the patronage of religious institutions, to defend their interests with the city authorities, that in turn used it to better control this suspicious population. Adapted from the source document.
ISSN:0395-2649