History

Kome-bikyaku: The Rice Couriers

Not every hikyaku carried letters. Some carried numbers. In Osaka, the Dojima Rice Market set the price of rice for the entire country. Prices changed daily. …

Kasamatsu Shiro's woodblock print of farmers planting rice seedlings in a flooded paddy field, with mountains in the background

A letter from Japan, worth slowing down for.

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