Kinkenchochikukai - thrift savings association

...The basis of this movement was to focus on the harsh living conditions of the Burakumin and their backwardness in terms of customs and education as factors that caused discrimination from the "general public," and to lay the foundation for independence by making repeated efforts to "improve" these conditions on one's own, and then to appeal to society at large for "reconciliation" between the "general public" and the Burakumin. Organizations of this kind were formed all over the country, but the formation and activities of the "Shintoku-kai" (1893) in Wakayama Prefecture, the "Kinken Chochiku-kai" (1895) in Osaka Prefecture, and the "Bizaka Heimin-kai" (1902) in Okayama Prefecture are well known. In particular, the Bizaka Heiminkai was a unification of discriminated communities in Okayama Prefecture, and was a pioneer of movement organizations on a prefecture-wide scale. Following this, the Dai-Nippon Dobo Yuwakai was formed in Osaka in 1903 (Meiji 36), which gained participants from Tokyo, Aichi, Mie, Kyoto, Osaka, Nara, Wakayama, Hyogo, Okayama, as well as Kyushu and Shikoku, and was born as a Buraku improvement movement organization on a nearly nationwide scale, marking a period in the history of the liberation movement.

*Some of the terminology used in reference to the "Kinthen Savings Association" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

…この運動の基本は，〈一般民〉からの差別の要因として被差別部落の生活実態の酷さ，風俗･教養面での立遅れを重視し，それらを自主的に〈改善〉すべく努力を積み重ねることで自立の基礎を固め，しかるのちに〈一般〉と被差別部落との〈融和〉を広く社会に訴えていこうとする点にあったといえる。その組織体は全国各地で編まれたが，和歌山県における〈進徳会〉(1893)，大阪府における〈勤倹貯蓄会〉(1895)，岡山県における〈備作平民会〉(1902)などの結成，活動がよく知られている。ことに，〈備作平民会〉は岡山県内の被差別部落を統合したもので，1県単位での運動組織の先駆をなしたものであるが，これについで1903年(明治36)に大阪で結成された〈大日本同胞融和会〉は，東京，愛知，三重，京都，大阪，奈良，和歌山，兵庫，岡山をはじめとして九州，四国地方からも参加者を得，ほぼ全国的規模での〈部落改善運動〉組織として誕生し，解放運動史上に一時期を画した。…

※「勤倹貯蓄会」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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