atsumi

Updated: May 1, 2025

But in Richu's time it was employed to punish the muraji of Atsumi, who had joined the rebellion of Prince Nakatsu. He was "inked" on the face. It appears also that the same practice had hitherto been employed to distinguish horse-keepers, but the custom was finally abandoned in deference to an alleged revelation from Izanagi, the deity of Awaji, on the occasion of a visit by Richu to that island.

F. (Frank) Brinkley - A History of the Japanese People : From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era