Portrait of a Tokugawa Outcaste Community ... - East Asian History

A TOKUGAWA OUTCASTE COMMUNITY89for example, writes that Lower Wana village submitted to Upper Wanavillage rule with regard to the collection of farming taxes, the preparationof population and group registers and the notification of changes invillage office. But all under their jurisdiction in these matters, Lower Wanavillage was removed from all Upper Wana village administration dutiesand had no voice in Upper Wana village affairs. In this sense, the label"lower" is seen to be originally a practice of administrative subordinationto the main farming village that most likely developed into a form of discriminatorylabelling indicating inferiority in later periods. 191 9 Minegishi, Kinsei hisabetsuminshi nokenkyU, p.71.20 Sa ita rna Kenshi Shiry6 Hen, ed., Shinpensaitama kenshi: shiry6 hen kinsei [New HislOryof Saitarna Prefecture] (Urawa: Saitarnaken,1991), Vo1.14, pp. 3, 752-73.21 Ibid., p.54.22 Minegishi, Kinsei hisabetsuminshi nokenkyU, pp.l24-34.23 Ibid., pp.59-