Japanese Pirates in the Beginning of the Heian Period [1-5]

In 669, an order was issued to register all the people and cut off bandits and tramps. In 697, an imperial order commanded governors to register people during the winter, and to examine and arrest tramps. Those orders suggest that the ruling noblemen at the time were equating tramps with bandits. The noblemen perceived the free movement of ruled people negatively. With their negative perception in mind, we are going to see chronologically how piracy in Japan started and what actions the authority took against it in Japanese Pirates in the Beginning of the Heian Period [2-x].