Children in Coal Pits (Yama) around 1898 #16: Playing to Make Another Admit Defeat
1964 - 1967

Meiji Sanju Ichinen Koro Yama no Kodomo #16: Kosan Iwase Gokko
[Children in Coal Pits (Yama) around 1898 #16: Playing to Make Another Admit Defeat]
25.5 x 35.7 cm Painting in Watercolors and Ink

Boys considered admitting defeat to be a shame more intolerable than death. Japanese men or boys at that time would not surrender no matter how hard they were tortured. The boy pinned against the ground never gave up until the wooden gong was struck to announce the beginning of the class after a 15 minutes' break at school.
The wooden gong was replaced with a bell (hansho) with a tongue (furitama) around 1900.


Translation Assisted by Mr. Nathan Johndro

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