Minamata Konjyaku

Countryside in Kojo

Date
Oct. 20, 1962
Sept 27, 2014
Address
2-chome, Kojo, Minamata
  • 昔
  • 今
  • People are harvesting rice at Itchoda. They bend down and cut rice with a sickle. You can see the house of the highest official in the village and a public health facility.
  • The present Itchoda. There is Jinnai branch of Suikosha.
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.