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
