单词 | hinin |
释义 | hininn. A member of an outcast group in Japan. Also collective and attributive. Cf. Eta n.3 ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast outcastc1390 outwalea1400 abjection1447 abject1528 overcast1574 rejectament1681 castaway1799 pariah1818 leper1825 cagot1844 Ishmaelite1848 hinin1884 expellee1888 eta1897 Ishmael1899 reject1917 1884 tr. J. J. Rein Japan: Trav. & Res. ii. i. 329 Geshas (female dancers and singers) and Jôrôs (prostitutes)..were despised, and considered..socially below the level of the Hìnìn. 1891 A. M. Bacon Japanese Girls & Women ix. 228 The éta and hinin—outcasts who lived by begging, slaughtering animals, caring for dead bodies, tanning skins, and other employments which rendered them unclean. 1904 L. Hearn Japan: Attempt at Interpr. vi. 110 The banished man was most often doomed to become a hinin—one of that wretched class of wandering pariahs who were officially termed ‘not-men’. 1970 J. W. Hall Japan x. 179 Tokugawa society..was conceived of..as falling into the following categories: the kuge, the samurai (including daimyo), priests, peasants, urban residents, and pariah (hinin and eta). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1884 |
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