Japanese Cruelty Story 3 (Heibonsha Library)

A collection of the voices of the oppressed. A brutal history of life...

The lives of those who suffered severe oppression, their free energy to move outward, are sealed off—Christians under the ban, castaways, and those groaning under the weight of discrimination and the caste system.

Volume 3 is "The Tragedy of National Isolation." Commentary by Yukio Shioka

[Table of Contents] The Tragedy of National Isolation: Prologue

Chapter 1: Those who violated the ban The Sea of ​​National Isolation The Curse of Fresh Blood The Hidden Demon The Heretic

Chapter 2: People Longing for Their Country Records of Drifting The Castaway

Chapter 3: People of the Domain Samurai Spirit Women of the Samurai Class Beyond the Domain Borders

Chapter 4: The Shackles of the Caste System Burakumin Selling Oneself and Being Apprenticed

Commentary: In the Buds of Hope by Yukio Shioka