Domestic Slavery and Outcast Enslavement in Tokugawa Japan (1603–1868)

1. Hideyoshi’s status-separation edict precedes Tokugawa system

   Oct 8, 1591Labels: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Separation Edict

   • Separation Edict

2. Edo period legal order codifies outcaste categories

   Jan 1, 1603Labels: Edo legal, Eta, Hinin

   • Britannica
   • Britannica
   • Edo period

3. Tokugawa shogunate established in Edo

   Mar 24, 1603Labels: Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa shogunate

   • Britannica
   • Britannica

4. Bakufu curbs trafficking and perpetual bondage contracts

   Oct 1, 1616Labels: Bakufu decree, human trafficking

   • Cambridge Core

5. Comprehensive anti-trafficking articles issued by shogunate

   Dec 27, 1619Labels: Shogunate articles, kidnapping laws

   • Cambridge Core

6. Shogunate caps servitude terms amid trafficking concerns

   Jan 1, 1625Labels: Servitude caps, Ten-year cap

   • Slavery Japan

7. Sankin kōtai system intensifies elite household demand

   Jan 1, 1635Labels: Sankin k, Daimy households

   • Britannica

8. Relaxation permits extended-term and hereditary service sales

   Jan 1, 1698Labels: 1698 relaxation, Hereditary service

   • Slavery Japan

9. Early 18th-century rules mark and restrict outcaste life

   Jan 1, 1700Labels: Status markers, Outcaste regulations

   • Britannica
   • HRW

10. Alternate attendance virtually abolished amid late-shogunate crisis

    Jan 1, 1862Labels: Sankin k, Late shogunate

    • Britannica

11. Tokugawa regime ends after Meiji Restoration

    Jan 3, 1868Labels: Meiji Restoration, Tokugawa collapse

    • Britannica
    • Britannica

12. Emancipation Edict abolishes eta and hinin designations

    Oct 12, 1871Labels: Emancipation Edict, Kaih rei

    • Britannica
    • BLHRRI
    • Yosha Bunko