Contents • • • • • Plot [ ] The basic plot concerns a school teacher named Ushimatsu Segawa (family name written last) who struggles with a commandment given to him by his late father. He is never to reveal his burakumin background, which his father had tried so hard to conceal as well. Ushimatsu idolizes Rentarou Inoko, a burakumin rights' activist and successful writer (particularly considering the social position given to those considered burakumin).

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Ushimatsu wishes to reveal his background to Rentarou, as his need to hide away part of himself in order to be accepted by society in general leads to his feeling constricted by this superficial identity, and to his desiring to form a more meaningful connection with Rentarou through their common experience. This novel also touches on the dangerous, destructive nature of gossip, and questions society's inability to accept what is not understood. It attempts to build understanding and empathy for this group of people at a time (the novel's publication's) when a great deal of prejudice still existed towards this group. Writing [ ] Toson's The Broken Commandment was completed under impecunious circumstances. Worship Matters Bob Kauflin Ebook Reader. After the idea of the novel was formulated, Toson approached his father-in-law, Hata Keiji, and a wealthy landlord, Kozu Takeshi, asking for their support in his full-time writing of the novel. They agreed, and Toson quit his job as a teacher.

With his pregnant wife and three daughters Toson left and moved to Minami Toshima-gun in to complete his work. His three daughters died one after another, from and intestinal, and Toson came to regard their deaths as 'sacrifices' − their deaths were most likely triggered by which deprived them from 'maintaining adequate physical resistance to the fatal diseases because of the tightly budgeted life Toson subjected his family to'. Film adaptations [ ] There are 3 film adaptations: • 破戒 (1913) • 破戒 (,, 1948) • 破戒 ( The Broken Commandment,, 1962) Bibliography [ ] • Title: The broken commandment, Japan Foundation translation series, Kokusai Kōryū Kikin, UNESCO collection of representative works: Japanese series • Author: • Editor: • Translated: • Collaborator: • Edition: reprinted • Editor: University of Tokyo Press, 1974 •, 913 • 249 pages References [ ].