Manners apprentice - gyogi minarai

Japanese: 行儀見習い - ぎょうぎみならい
Manners apprentice - gyogi minarai

...The Ogasawara school, established during the Muromachi period, became the standard of etiquette for samurai in the Edo period, and this samurai etiquette gradually influenced upper-class townspeople and farmers, and after the Meiji period, it became the standard of etiquette for city dwellers and landowners. For this reason, children of farmers were sent to work as servants for wealthy people in cities, under the guise of being servants or apprentices, and were taught the proper etiquette. After World War II, the traditional fixed etiquette was largely broken down, much to the dismay of the older generation. ...

*Some of the terminology explanations that refer to "manners apprenticeship" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…室町時代に成立した小笠原流は江戸時代の武士の礼法として一般化し,その武士的な礼法がしだいに町人や百姓の上層部に影響を与えていったし,明治以降は都市生活者や地主層の礼儀作法の基準となった。そのため,農家の子女を,お屋敷奉公とか行儀見習いと称して,都市の富裕層の所へ奉公させ,作法を身につけさせることも行われた。第2次大戦後は従来の固定的な作法が大幅に壊れ,古い世代を嘆かせることとなった。…

※「行儀見習い」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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