Yoshino Sakubei - Gino Sakubei

Japanese: 義農作兵衛 - ぎのうさくべえ
Yoshino Sakubei - Gino Sakubei

...During the great famine of 1732 (Kyoho 17), a farmer from Tsutsui, Sakubei, starved to death with stored wheat seeds as his pillow in order to save some for sowing the following year, and was praised as a righteous farmer. In 1776 (An'ei 5), Matsudaira Sadashige, the lord of Matsuyama, erected a gravestone for Sakubei, and in 1881 it was enshrined as Gino Shrine. From the Meiji period to the early Showa period, peddling of ceramics and processed seafood products was popular, and sales routes extended as far as mainland China. ...

*Some of the terminology that refers to "Gino Sakubei" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…1732年(享保17)の大飢饉の際,筒井の百姓作兵衛は翌年播種する麦を残すため蓄えの麦種を枕に餓死し,義農とたたえられた。76年(安永5)松山藩主松平定静は義農作兵衛の墓碑を建て,1881年には義農神社としてまつられた。明治から昭和初年にかけては,陶磁器や海産加工品の行商が盛んで,販路は遠く中国大陸方面などにも及んだ。…

※「義農作兵衛」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。

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