Gunma Prefecture Discrimination History Materials - Documents of the Ko-gashira Saburoemon Family - Iwata Shoin Historical Materials Series ② Edited by the East Japan Buraku Liberation Research Institute This is a book I purchased around 2019. I used it for my graduation research for about three months. There were many pencil markings, so I erased them with an eraser as much as I noticed. There may be some oversights. I think it's in relatively good condition, but please understand that it's been stored by an individual. It contains historical materials from the early modern to modern periods. This is a book about buraku communities, so I would like to sell it to those who are using it for research or who want to study it. If you want to buy the next item I'm listing as a set, please comment. I will give you a discount. The following is quoted from the Iwata Shoin website: "The Documents of the Ko-gashira Saburoemon Family" are documents from the discriminated buraku community, passed down to the Ko-gashira Saburoemon family under Danzaemon, who oversaw the workplaces of 13 villages in Gunma County, mainly in Ueno Province (Gunma Prefecture) Ueno Village (present-day Maebashi City). These documents have been passed down through generations to the current Hirai family, who have taken the name Saburoemon, and have been carefully preserved for a long time, but after the war, some of them were lost or leaked due to various circumstances. Approximately 500 early modern documents are extant, and it has been discovered that 400 new modern and contemporary historical materials are preserved. The oldest document that can be confirmed in this document is from 1718 (Kyoho 3). There are also "Fundamental Origins" dated 1639 (Kanei 16), "Historical Records" and "Military Achievements of Nagano Narimasa, Lord of Minowa Castle, during the Tenmon and Eiroku eras" with no specific dates, but these are considered to be from later periods. This time, almost all of the early modern documents were included, excluding some fragments and Japanese books, and for the modern period, almost all of the Meiji period documents, and some of the Taisho period documents on livelihoods, politics and society, faith, and environmental improvement were included. * Regarding early modern documents, those included in "Tokyo Buraku Liberation Research" Nos. 63/65 and 66/68 were supplemented.