These were outcasts because their ancestors worked at trades that dealt with dead flesh, such as butchery, tanning, grave digging, and so on, which was seen as unclean in the Buddhist religious tradition.

A. burakumin
B. kobun
C. ikka
D. ronin


A. burakumin

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