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Chapter La Giustizia è donna

dc.contributor.authorColombo, Giorgio Fabio
dc.date.accessioned2025-12-01T09:56:53Z
dc.date.available2025-12-01T09:56:53Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.submitted2024-12-20T12:44:19Z
dc.identifierONIX_20241220_9791221504224_406
dc.identifier2975-0261
dc.identifierhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/96612
dc.identifier.urihttps://doab-dev.siscern.org/handle/20.500.12854/207856
dc.description.abstractDuring the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, ghost stories flourished. Some of these stories are particularly interesting for jurists analysing the Tokugawa legal system through the lens of popular culture. This article examines one of these stories: the tale of a servant who is killed by the hands of an unjust lord and returns as a ghost constitutes a faithful depiction of the tension between law and justice under the Tokugawa. The story shows, albeit indirectly, how the legal system was unable to provide justice for the lower strata of the population. Finally, the ghost itself plays a distinctive and important role in the collective imaginary as an agent of justice in the Edo period.
dc.languageItalian
dc.relation.ispartofseriesConnessioni. Studies in Transcultural History
dc.rightsopen access
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::C Language and Linguistics::CF Linguistics
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies
dc.subject.otherJapan
dc.subject.otherGhosts
dc.subject.otherJustice
dc.subject.otherLaw and Literature
dc.subject.otherRevenge
dc.titleChapter La Giustizia è donna
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/979-12-215-0422-4.27
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a
oapen.relation.isbn9791221504224
oapen.pages12
oapen.place.publicationFlorence
dc.seriesnumber3
dc.abstractotherlanguageDuring the Edo period (1603-1868) in Japan, ghost stories flourished. Some of these stories are particularly interesting for jurists analysing the Tokugawa legal system through the lens of popular culture. This article examines one of these stories: the tale of a servant who is killed by the hands of an unjust lord and returns as a ghost constitutes a faithful depiction of the tension between law and justice under the Tokugawa. The story shows, albeit indirectly, how the legal system was unable to provide justice for the lower strata of the population. Finally, the ghost itself plays a distinctive and important role in the collective imaginary as an agent of justice in the Edo period.


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