Japan and the Japanese illustrated . - to the elements. There is a class still lower than that of the Ycdas. [iropcrly so called, that isto say the artisans who prarti<e unclean arts, such as skinners, tanners, leather 288 LIFE IN JAPAN. dressers; aud one lower still, public executioners, purveyors of vice, lepers, cripples,reo-istered beo-o-ars; tbcn comes a final category of individuals held in the extremedecree of Ic^al infamy, it is the class of Christans, the tolerated descendantsof such of tlie native Christian families as were not entirely destroyed in the great. TIIK END OF THE IAUI
Japan and the Japanese illustrated . - to the elements. There is a class still lower than that of the Ycdas. [iropcrly so called, that isto say the artisans who prarti<e unclean arts, such as skinners, tanners, leather 288 LIFE IN JAPAN. dressers; aud one lower still, public executioners, purveyors of vice, lepers, cripples,reo-istered beo-o-ars; tbcn comes a final category of individuals held in the extremedecree of Ic^al infamy, it is the class of Christans, the tolerated descendantsof such of tlie native Christian families as were not entirely destroyed in the great. TIIK END OF THE persecution of tlie 17ili century. Their condition is worse than that of the mereYudas, who livt nniong tliemselves in freedom, outside the city boundaries ; soutterly ignored l>y ilic law, that the space of ground occupied by their camp ofthatched huts does not count in (he raeasurcnioiit plans. The Christans, on thecontrary, are assigned a miserable crowded quarter in tin city, like the ghetto of the THE UlUUSTASS. 28y Jews ill tlic Middle Ages, wliiili is virtuallv a prison. The police keep watch overthem until they have drawn their last breath, and it is their business to remove thetorpses, and dispose of them somehow,—no one knows where or how ; but so thatthe name of tlie crucified one shall not be pronounced over their ashes.
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