新しん平へい民みん

noun

new commoner; former outcast after the 1871 abolition of the feudal caste system

Historical and derogatory term for people who were formerly classified as 穢多 (eta) or 非人 (hinin) and were legally reclassified as commoners after the Meiji-era abolition of the caste system, but continued to face severe discrimination.

• 明めい治じ時じ代だいに新しん平へい民みんという呼よび名なが使つかわれたが、差さ別べつ的てきな言こと葉ばだった。

  In the Meiji period, the term shin-heimin was used, but it was a discriminatory word.