Costumes/types—Women Working

“The women work fully as hard as the men in the fields, and are, besides, often seen carrying home heavy loads of wood, pushing long and heavy trucks laden with tea, mulberry leaves, &c., along the road, or threshing wheat and millet with stout sticks.”

Arthur H. Crow, Highways and Byeways in Japan, (London, 1883) p. 77