Abstract
Up to this time, many legal historians have been inclined to neglect the problem about the official control over the Buraku (the peoples as the lowest class) in the Tokugawa era. But, nowadays it is admitted that the serious social problem about the Buraku origins in the Bakuhan regime. So that we must go back to the Tokugawa era in order to resolve the very today's problem about the Buraku. See "The Japan Annual of Law and Politics" (Science Council of Japan, No. 21 1973). Now, not a few scholars in the United States of America, make a plan to study this problem in their own ways.
In my brief paper, I would like to introduce the materials for history; that is the laws and ordinances of the Bakufu and the Han (the local authorities under the shogunate, the Daimyo).
