Rescue hut - Sukuigoya

Japanese: 救小屋 - すくいごや

A temporary hut built in the early modern period to house poor victims of disasters such as famine, fire, and storm and flood damage. In urban societies where disaster victims were concentrated, food distribution huts such as rice porridge were often set up to replenish the hunger of the poor victims, and in the early modern period these were also called relief huts. However, relief huts, which managed the entire lives of the poor to prevent them from wandering around the city, and food distribution huts, which only provided temporary rice for meals, had different social functions, and in later years they became clearly differentiated.

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

近世に飢饉，火災，風水害などの災害時，貧窮の罹災者を収容する目的で建てられた仮小屋。また，災害に際して罹災者が集中的に出た都市社会では，罹災窮民の飢えを補うため，施行粥などの炊出し小屋もたびたび設置され，近世初頭にはこれも御救小屋と称された。しかし，貧窮者の市街浮浪を抑止するため，その全生活を管理する御救小屋と，飯米の一時的施与のみを目的とする炊出し小屋とはその社会的機能を異にするため，後年ははっきり分化した。

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