Two Expert Mine Car Drivers (Transport Men: Yasushi Nakamura and Chokichi Okabe)
1958 - 1963

Futari no Meijin Norimawashi (Saodori: Nakamura Yasushi, Okabe Chokichi)
[Two Expert Mine Car Drivers (Transport Men: Yasushi Nakamura and Chokichi Okabe)]
21.1 x 30.0 cm Ink Painting

Text on the Right
Two underground bosses at the No. 2 Pit [of Ito Coal Pit of Nagao Mining Station] named Yasushi Nakamura aged 30 (a former army sergeant) and Chokichi Okabe aged 23 (a very short man) became the chief transport men (kanji norimawashi) on June 9, 1943. They were the smartest men of the pit, and it was natural that no stasis of mine car allotment (hako-nagure) occurred after that. The efficiency in mining improved and every worker in the pit was elated. Other workers in charge of coal transport in the pit were very inspired by them and worked harder. Transport men at the trestle (sambashi saodori) began to work hectically every day and acted fairly promptly.
In this way, both Nakamura and Okabe stopped working as transport men after July 6th in the same year and a certain new employee Nakahara (first name unknown) worked as a mine car driver (norimawashi) instead of them thereafter. This man was not a big man but was supernaturally good at allotting mine cars. In any case, the pit became very prosperous owing to this expert in mine car allotment. Of course, the sacrificial work by the above two men for a month was a big cause of the result.

Text at the Bottom Left
Every underground landing had a single track except those for levels with a fault on the left side of the main slope. Therefore, a mine car connected to the winding rope was always prepared for coupling with and winding up loaded mine cars. The length of the steep slope called a hashirikomi of this pit from the head frame to the pit mouth was about 150 meters.


Translation Assisted by Mr. Nathan Johndro

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