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Research Focus Group Talk: Finding Echigo in Edo: Snow Country Migrants and their Urban Worlds
Research Focus Group Talk: Finding Echigo in Edo: Snow Country Migrants and their Urban Worlds
The Echigo province migrant was a familiar type in nineteenth-century Edo. Every year in the tenth month, snow country peasants would come down the mountains on the Nakasendō Highway and enter the city through Itabashi Station. They wandered down the main street in Hongō, where they were met by labor scouts who had learned to recognize their bewildered expressions and country accents. Many ended up in the city’s notorious boarding houses for laborers, where they ...
