komaro

Updated: January 11, 2026

Even the manumission of a slave required official sanction. Thus it is recorded that, in the reign of the Empress Jito, Komaro, an asomi, asked and obtained the Court's permission to grant their freedom to six hundred slaves in his possession.

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