not-human-beings

Updated: May 12, 2025

But for perhaps a thousand years there has been no fellowship between the people of those contiguous communities.... Nobody can now tell the history of these outcast folk: the cause of their social excommunication has long been forgotten. Besides the Eta proper, there were pariahs called hinin, a name signifying "not-human-beings."

Lafcadio Hearn - Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation