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Japanese: 道々の者 - みちみちのもの

Dodo refers to various ways, various academic disciplines and performing arts, and "dodo no mono" refers to experts who are skilled in various ways. Also called "dodo no hai," according to artisan poetry contests, the term is used to include a variety of skilled workers, including casters, blacksmiths, carpenters, doctors, onmyoji (exorcists), shamans, Buddhist chanters, Sarugaku (musicians), gamblers, divers, prostitutes, and puppeteers, as well as merchants, craftsmen, entertainers, religious figures, and gamblers. However, around the time of the Nanboku-cho period, the term came to be used more narrowly to refer to entertainers and sorcerers, excluding craftsmen, and later "do no mono" was sometimes used synonymously with prostitutes. This change in usage is thought to have been due to a social trend that solidified the status of discriminated people, including entertainers and sorcerers. →Class system→Related articleHattori Yukio

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Japanese:

道々とは諸道，さまざまな学問や芸能のことで，〈道々の者〉とは諸道に熟達した専門家たちをいった。〈道々の輩〉ともいい，職人歌合(しょくにんうたあわせ)などによると鋳物師(いもじ)・鍛冶・番匠・医師・陰陽師(おんみょうじ)・巫・念仏者・猿楽・博打・海人(あま)・遊女・傀儡(くぐつ)師ほか，商人・職人・芸能民・宗教者・勝負師なども合わせたさまざまな技能者を含む言葉として使われている。しかし，およそ南北朝期を境として，工匠を除き，狭義に芸能者・呪術者などをさす用法が増え，のちに〈道の者〉を遊女と同義に用いることもあった。こうした用法変化の背景には芸能者・呪術者を含む被差別民の身分を固定化する社会動向があったと考えられる。→身分制度
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