Seeing off a funeral party
- Date
- Aug. 29, 1962
- Oct. 24, 2014
- Address
- Saiwai-machi, Minamata City
- In July 1962, during the struggle over a stable wage system, Mr. Kihachiro Matsunaga (an organizer of Mitsui Chemicals Labor Union) was killed in an accident involving a sound truck. People are seeing off the funeral party, wearing black armbands. An old-model car parked behind them reminds us of the time period.
- The present towns of Ohashi and Sakuragaoka. There are more houses on the opposite shore than before.
Reference sources
- The Edo Period:
The Picture Map of Ashikita-gun, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, the late Edo Period. - The Meiji Period:
The Japanese National Atlas at the end of Edo Period and in the Meiji Period, Kashiwa Shobo, Collection of Kumamoto Gakuen University Library, 1983.
