Relative Death - Aitaiji ni

Japanese: 相対死 - あいたいじに
Relative Death - Aitaiji ni

A legal term for love suicide and double suicide in the Edo Shogunate. The words love suicide and double suicide were glorified by the joruri puppet theatre of Chikamatsu Monzaemon and others, and even men and women of the time tended to glorify them. In order to correct the decadent trend, the eighth shogun, Tokugawa Yoshimune, issued a prohibition called "sotojishi" in 1722 (Kyoho 7). In other words, if a couple committed an illicit double suicide, their bodies would be discarded and they would not be allowed to mourn, and if both parties were still alive, they would be exposed to the public for three days and made into hininteka (outcasts). He announced this throughout Edo in the following year of Kyoho 8.

[Ryosuke Ishii]

[Reference] | Suicide

Source: Shogakukan Encyclopedia Nipponica About Encyclopedia Nipponica Information | Legend

Japanese:

情死、心中に対する江戸幕府の法制上の用語。近松門左衛門らの世話浄瑠璃(じょうるり)などによって、情死、心中の語が美化され、当時の男女がこれを賛美する傾向さえ生じた。8代将軍徳川吉宗(よしむね)は退廃的な風潮を是正するため、享保(きょうほう)7年(1722)に、相対死という名称で禁令を出した。すなわち、不義で相対死をした者は死骸(しがい)を取り捨てて弔わせず、双方存命ならば三日晒(さらし)のうえ非人手下(ひにんてか)にすることとし、翌享保8年江戸町中にこれを触れている。

[石井良助]

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