tomobe

Updated: May 21, 2025

There is no evidence, however, that the treatment of the nuhi was inhuman or even harsh: they appear to have fared much as did the tomobe in general. There are two kinds of territorial rights, and these, though now clearly differentiated, were more or less confounded in ancient Japan.

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