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On September 1, 2019, we visited a house in a seaside village which had 90 households in the Tokai region of Honshu to meet Toyo Nakata, Etsu Nakata, and Kazue Nakata (all the names in this paper are pseudonyms).
Toyo was born in July 1923 and was 96 years old at the time of hearing. Etsu was born in December 1928 and was 90 years old at the time of hearing. The two were the fourth and fifth daughters of five sisters. Their father, Tomisaburo, was born in 1888. Tomisaburo was sent to the Hansen’s disease sanatorium, Tama Zenshoen during the war and escaped in 1944 but confined again in 1948. In 1953, he died at Zenshoen.
After the war, Etsu married a young man in a neighbor village in the form of the marriage that a husband becomes a member of a wife’s family, and in 1950 and 1951 he gave birth to two daughters. However, the female shop owner in the village revealed to her husband that her father Tomisaburo was confined in a ‘leprosarium’, and he left her to finish the marriage life by saying, “People say that your father has strange disease.”
Etsu’s elder sister, Toyo, spent her entire life as a single to support her family which had only female members.
Born in December 1951, Kazue (67 years old at the time of hearing) is Etsu’s younger daughter. Kazue also married a young man in another neighboring village in the same form that Etsu did. But after giving birth to her daughter in 1972, her husband’s family learned that her grandfather had ‘leprosy’ by the same shop owner who had revealed it before. Her husband family even said, “Even if we kill your whole family, we wouldn’t be guilty of it,” and her marriage life collapsed.
When we visited the Nakata family and said “You went through a lot of hardship,” Etsu replied, “Now is the happiest time in my life.”
The day after the interview, we received an email from Kazue’s daughter (40s) while participating in the “35th Japanese Association of Sociology for Human Liberation Convention” held at Waseda University. She said in the mail, “How do you do? Thank you for your visit in spite of busy schedule yesterday. My mother is not good at using cellphone so I am sending this email on behalf of her. I have never met my great-grandfather, but I visited his grave to report yesterday thing. My mother told me that my grandmother had never shared her story with other people so far but she feels so good after she told her story to you. Thank you very much.”
罹患者の娘のみならず孫まで結婚差別 : ハンセン病問題聞き取り《調査ノート》
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