The People of Okunoto

The people of Okunoto. Farmers build thousand paddy fields. Fishermen, who do not have a fishing port, make salt in pumping salt fields. There are also migrant workers and peddlers. 　 The people of Okunoto, despite the rough seas of the Sea of Japan and the poverty of their half-farming, half-fishing existence, build Senmaida rice paddies (paddies built on sloping land), people make salt the old-fashioned way, the last of the Agehama salt paddies where salt is pumped with labor, the cutting down of Asunaro forests, a tribe of fishermen turned plasterers, women peddling fish, and women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida. Women peddling fish, women peddling fish and vegetables at the morning market in Iida, a general merchandise market held in each village 　before winter preparations, and women leaving for Kansai in search of work before winter. The film was shot on an unknown date, and was released on November 4, 1960.

A vegetable vendor

A vegetable vendor

Street peddlers sell vegetables in front of a shop. Lotus root, radish, eggplant, pumpkin and other root vegetables are visible in the bamboo baskets. The couple in front are negotiating prices. The crowd in the back probably gathered to see the camera.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number96‐32‐0]

Women carrying luggage on their heads

Women carrying luggage on their heads

Five women peddlers are walking along a road. A tenugui hand towel is visible underneath the luggage they are carrying on the head. They also wear gaiters and straw sandals. The way in which they tie their sashes suggests they are likely travelling a long distance.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number85‐47‐0]

A flower vendor

A flower vendor

The kneeling man seems to be holding a pair of flower scissors in his right hand. It is said that flower sellers made a clinking sound with scissors while peddling. Some peddlers sold pots and seedlings as well as flowers.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number85‐46‐0]

A fish seller

A fish seller

The fish peddler walked around the city carrying fish in a shallow tub that hung from a carrying pole on his shoulder. The man on the right holding a plate is a customer. He would use the plate to carry the purchased fish home. Called furiuri, these peddlers played an indispensable role in daily life.==Date:1868, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐71‐0]

A vegetable vendor

A vegetable vendor

A peddler carries vegetables on a balancing pole. When the load was heavy, the peddlers held canes as well. This man is wearing a twisted hachimaki headband, short coat, trousers, white tabi socks and straw sandals. The vegetables include lotus root, burdock, spinach, turnip and mustard leaf. He is writing in a handbook.==Date:unknown, Place:unknown, Photo:unknown, (Credit:Nagasaki University Library/Kyodo News Images) [Cabinet Number64‐14‐0]