Rice Riots at Coal Pits (Yama) (Rise in the Price of Rice)
1958 - 1963

Yama no Kome-sodo (Kome no Neagari)
[Rice Riots at Coal Pits (Yama) (Rise in the Price of Rice)]
21.0 x 29.9 cm Ink Painting

Prices were stable and 1 sho of rice cost 15 sen (0.15 yen) around 1916. However, the price of the same quantity of rice rose to as high as 55 sen (0.55 yen) at the end of July in 1918. If the wages had risen according to the price of rice, the disturbance written about below would have never happened. The first rice riot was started by the wives of fishermen in Toyama on August 3, 1918, and similar riots spread all over Japan. Mineji Coal Pit was the first pit that started rioting in the Chikuho region.
The rice-cooking pot with a brim (hagama) was set down without being used, and the rice bin, boiled-rice pail and boiled-rice basket also became useless (idle).
(We cannot scoop up rice porridge with rice paddles [shakushi] or grab it with hands.)

Words at the Bottom Left
Hagama-gassen: Struggle for Rice with Idle Hagama
Shakushi-kaze: Wind Caused by Rice Paddles Being Waved

Lettering in White at the Top
Kome: rice


Translation Assisted by Mr. Nathan Johndro

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