heimin

• “They belong to the samurai class, and, doubtless, their naturally superior position weighs with the heimin.”

  Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

• “The ceremony did not correspond with the rules laid down for marriages in the books of etiquette that I have seen, but this is accounted for by the fact that they were for persons of the samurai class, while this bride and bridegroom, though the children of well-to-do merchants, belong to the heimin.”

  Unbeaten Tracks in Japan

• “As he entered he had seen them lead away a _heimin_ (commoner) who had undergone the punishment.”

  The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)

• “The daimyo ruled their territories by the power of the sword; and any samurai could slay at will any heimin (commoner).”

  China and the Post-War World

• “There were no exchanges of civilities, as upon meeting _heimin_; a Japanese of the better class would as soon think of taking off his hat to a”

  Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints

• “The faces I saw seemed much like the faces of the _heimin_, except that I fancied the ugly ones were uglier, making the pretty ones appear more pretty by contrast.”

  Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints

• “Thither we went, and were as nicely received as in a _heimin_ residence.”

  Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints

• “A large public bath-house and a public laundry bore evidence that the _yama-no-mono_ liked clean linen as well as their _heimin_ neighbors on the other side of the hill.”

  Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints

• “Youths, who might in another era have aspired to offices of State, had become the trusted servants of Oki heimin.”

  Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series

• “Of the four great classes of the nation -- Samurai, Farmers, Artizans, and Merchants (the Shi-No-Ko-Sho, as they were briefly called, after the initial characters of the Chinese terms used to designate them) -- the last three were counted together under the general appellation of Heimin, "common folk." ll heimin were subject to the samurai; any samurai being privileged to kill the heimin showing him disrespect.”

  Japan: an Attempt at Interpretation

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