Demostration march near Hachimangu - 1
- Date
- Nov. 4, 1962
- Sept. 7, 2014
- Address
- 3 Hachiman-cho, Minamata City
- Members of the Housewives Group marched near the gate of Hachimangu shrine. All the marchers wore white headbands with the words of “The Housewives Group for the Shin-Nihon Chisso Labor Union under the Japanese Federation of Synthetic Chemistry Workers' Unions”. Someone wore Monpe (old-fashioned women’s work pants). Union members were supported by their wives. The house of the Shinto priest of the shrine can be seen near the gate.
- The present gate of Hachimangu shrine and the house of its priest. The number of trees within the shrine site seems to have decreased.
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.
