Period of Japanese history. The direct translation of the phrase "Hinin" is "non-human". Hinin and Eta (穢多 (えた)) consisted of the lowest social classes in ancient...

butchers, and tanners. The term encompasses both the historical eta and hinin outcasts. During Japan's feudal era, these occupations acquired a hereditary...

"filthy" and hinin to "non-humans", a thorough reflection of the attitude held by other classes that the eta and hinin were not even people. Hinin were only...

Birth Control Revolution (避妊革命, Hinin Kakumei) a.k.a. Contraceptive Revolution is a 1967 Japanese pink film directed by Masao Adachi for Kōji Wakamatsu's...

(dep.) -ná- -tá- -u: -ʔe na ní -j wj -i: -ya -i: -ni: -i 'we' (ind.) ìnno hinín anná-ga inná-ga mu: ána éné jnn ni:nu: naħnu nkkwni 'you' (masc. sing. ind...

hadhaabu. "He is a lion." Tuun ay-girshaytu. "This is a five-piastre piece." Hinin Imeeraaba. "We are Amirab." Baraah imaka. "They are the donkeys." Baraah...

prostitutes, and beggers, later formed a second outcaste group called the hinin (非人 lit. 'inhuman').: 33–34  The specific membership of these groups has...

or, for blind women (goze), the shamisen.[citation needed] Being lesser hinin (lit. "non-people"), blind people and masseurs were regarded as among the...

striking effects. For example, Bandō Shūka, playing the role of an onna hinin (beggar woman), appeared on the stage covered with a komo (straw mat sometimes...

Buddhist monks, nuns and Shintō priests, discriminated classes of eta and hinin were sometimes excluded from the total population. Unregistered people were...