The strangest job in Japanese feudalism

For all the chaos, bloodshed and crazy killers Fill the decapitated head with bamboo grassThere was a beautiful simplicity during the Sengoku period. During the 150 years around the Civil War, warriors tried to kill each other and glory, while everyone else tried to stay away from their own path. Then, the Edo period came, peace was achieved, and the old rules and a bunch of work walked out of the window.

That’s when many warriors retrain And become a policeman. As for the civilians, they search for anything that makes them live, and in the process, some of them themselves carved the strangest niche in Japanese labor history.

A fart nun

In the Edo era, farting was a very gender issue. While it’s fun for a man to do this, it’s expected that women won’t produce a single fool, squeak or rumble that one can hear. It turns out that in autumn, when everyone in Japan loves roasting sweet potatoes, it is one of the most powerful flatulence fuels ever.

If a young woman breaks the wind in front of a customer at her parents’ shop, or worse yet, in front of her prospective husband, the shame is obviously great enough to drive some suicide. This is why smart sweet potato women use unified.

These translate to “nuns who fart,” and these are usually older women who are sometimes actual Buddhist nuns or just dressed in clothes. On the surface, they are used as maids or waiting for ladies.

However, their real job is to be with a young woman, saying that if someone hears “later cheers” or smells sick, their hands are raised. Apparently, the idea of blaming it on a dog has not been invented yet.

Everyone knows it’s okay Who really farts? Feudal Japan operates on the outside, and as long as there is a party willing to take responsibility, everything is fine. Just like the farting nun itself, forgiven for age.

“Hanji-Mono”: a form of Kangaemono in the 19th century, created by Utgawaga Kunimori

Brainworm removal agent

Edo (Modern Tokyo) is a literate city. Many of its 500,000 civilians like to read. However, in many places, books are difficult to obtain. One choice of time is to wait kangaroo Hawker.

Kangaemono print puzzles and brainteaser, free distribution through Wandering bile. Sometimes described as a “religious performer” or a “monk-like beggar”, Gan Ning is a man who is often trained in religious but never appointed in any order.

They have carried out various activities such as pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to pilgrimage to Wild and dangerous), but also make money in more secular ways, such as distributing kangaroos.

But how do they make money if they give up on them for free? Simple: They didn’t give an answer. Gan Ning usually visits part of Edo, abandons all his puzzles, and leaves, making the mystery consumes the neighbors.

People will brain, consult each other and focus all their energy on the problem, but the puzzle is deliberately very difficult. At night, they will come back and provide answers to the kangaroos for a small fee. Many people are willing to pay for the removal of brainworms.

These puzzles are often based on puns, word games and moon logic, such as: “How does a person (like the first Chinese character character, become a priest)?” Here, “a” means “first step”, meaning “servant”. To be a pastor, he needs “perseverance” (Simbo), also a homophone for “pole” or “vertical line”.

So when you add “Perseverance” (vertical line) to “Sitter” (horizontal line), you get tenThrow down) This is also the same homophonic voice as “the master priest of the temple”. If you’re angry now, you know that this is the anger of Edo centuries ago.

Araijuku Aratame-Baba depicted in Utagawa Hiroshige’s series “Fifty-three stations of two brushes”

Genital inspector

One of the ways Tokugawa Shogunate prevents the country from falling into another civil war is by controlling the provincial level. Sankin-Kotai (Alternative Residence) System. It forces each main Lord to alternate between his own land and Edo life.

The cost of retaining two families is a huge waste of their resources. The system also stipulates that Jehovah’s family stayed in Edo indefinitely as a “guest” of the shogun, which is much better than “hostages”, even though that is a hostage”.

Many try to sneak wives and children from the capital, but they are often stopped at checkpoints. The main roads connecting major Japanese cities are everywhere.

They checked the government-issued permit to ensure you have the right to get on the journey. Some people try to dress up their families as opposite sex by forging and dressing up their families, but that’s what aratame-baba Come in.

Also known as hitomi-nonn, They were staff members of the inspectors who conducted a feudal version of the airport’s second-level security screening. The travel permit physically describes the holder, so Aratame-Baba will see those who match the person, looking at their distinction marks and things like that.

However, some checkpoints are also firmly determined to confirm the person’s gender in case they are family members trying to escape the shogunate. In those places, people are expected to lift their clothes, take off their kimono, take off their pants, and then flash aratame-baba.

This ultimately depends on a single checkpoint and does not happen every day. But the feudal Japanese artists spent a wild day, portraying Aratame-baba as an invasive geek who was obsessed with the genitals. By the early 1800s, the occupation of genital inspectors had disappeared.

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