Food and clothing customers (English spelling: yi-shi-ke; i-shih-k`o)

Japanese: 衣食客 - いしょくきゃく（英語表記）yi-shi-ke; i-shih-k`o

In China during the Jin and Northern and Southern Dynasties periods, these were a type of slave who was kept by a powerful person and was given this name because they were provided with food and clothing by their master. There was a system in place where government officials could have a certain number of guests according to their status. Guests were exempt from paying taxes and their names were noted in the family register of their master, the government official. Such guests, including guests, first appeared during the Six Dynasties period, and during the Eastern Jin and Southern Dynasties, it became common for common people who were struggling to make ends meet to receive financial assistance from government officials and then work to repay the assistance to the official, becoming guests. For this reason, it is believed that powerful government officials had more guests than the regulations stipulated. The guest girls (women's buqu) of the Tang Dynasty are thought to be their successor.

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Japanese:

中国，晋・南北朝時代，有力者にかかえられ隷従していた者の一種で，主家から衣食を支給されていたのでこの名がある。官吏はその身分に応じて一定数の衣食客をもつ制度があった。衣食客は課役を免除され，主人である官吏の戸籍にその名前を注記される。こうした衣食客を含む制度上の客は六朝時代になって初めて出現し，東晋・南朝では生活困難な庶民が官吏から経済的援助を受け，その援助分を働いて官吏に返すため衣食客となることも多くなった。それだけに有力な官吏のもとには規定以上の衣食客がいたと考えられる。唐の客女 (女性部曲) はその後身とされる。

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